>> that's what's happening "today in the bay." good morning. strong start. american skier julia mancuso wins bronze moments ago in the women's super combined adding to her impressive total as the nation's most decorated female skier in olympic history. we'll hear from her. american snowboarders shred in slopestyle and bring the u.s. its first two gold medals of the games. they are both with us live. making putin proud, 15-year-old russian skater yulia lipnitskaya wows her nation's president and the world while some u.s. stars help america grab a bronze in the first ever team event. and they'll all join us live

"today," monday, february 10th, 2014. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today" at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from olympic park in sochi, russia. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" at the olympic games in sochi, russia. i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie alongside a dancing al roker, natalie morales and, of course, some of our closest friends here in sochi. the russian police choir. many of you know them by now because on friday before the opening ceremony, their warm-up act went viral. they did a wonderful rendition

shed led after the downhill portion and impressive slolam portion. we have speed skating and hockey and the team usa and women in action right now. now with the competition is any indication, sochi is an olympics for the ages. julia mancuso won the first medal in alpine skiing with bronze and the women's ice hockey team beating switzerland in a 9-0 preliminary match. a giant day for jamie anderson. >> claims gold. >> her joy apparent on the winner's podium.

a picture tweeted out. and sage kotsenburg uncorking a move on saturday he never tried before. i blacked out in the air. a scary moment during the women's competition. >> oh! >> sarka pancochova goes down hard. >> when pancochova, the czech republic fell so hard, it split her helmet open. she managed to coast down under her own power. it was a dazzling premiere for another new competition. team figure skating. team usa took the bronze, canada the silver, as the russians won gold. the host nation's first gold drew hugs are russian president vladimir putin. >> oh! totally sideways in the air. >> back on the slopes, a day of disappointment for bode miller. the olympic veteran finished

eighth in the downhill. he says he was hampered by a change in the weather. >> we have this cloud today, the cloud cover. when the visibility gets worse, that can be a disadvantage. >> miller shouldn't worry, the 36-year-old has another shot at gold in the super combined on friday. >> we should mention the sn snowboarder is all right. >> the medal count with norway with seven and canada with five and team usa with five as well. we have two snowboarders here. we've got two of team usa gold medal winners here. sage kotsenburg and jamie anderson, each grabbed gold in the slopestyle event over the weekend. good morning. congratulations. >> thank you for having us. >> jamie, you have 11 family members, is that right, here? did that make it extra special? >> it definitely did. >> and their travel was a little

tough to get here? >> can you imagine traveling with ten family members? but, i mean, it's so special to have them all here. and i couldn't be more stoked. >> sage, not only did you win the first medal for the u.s. you won the first medal for a u.s. athlete ever in the olympics on russian soil. does that sink in? you're going to be in the history books. >> yeah. pretty unreal to think about that stuff. i was stoked to be on the first ever snowboard slopestyle team. and to top it off with a medal, it being gold, first ever slopestyle medal, fourth ever american to have first gold in the games and then first one in russia. it's insane. too much to take in almost. >> did i hear right? you actually basically invented a trick you did for the very first time in your gold-medal winning performance? that takes a lot of nerve. >> i'd never done that trick before. a couple of people had done it. but i'd never even thought about trying it. i just winged it and ended up landing it. it was pretty cool. >> you're going to wing it, wing it at the olympics, right? >> no other place to do it.

>> jamie, talk to me about the night before the competition. your level of nerves. i understand you didn't sleep all that well or eat all that well. >> yeah, there's a lot of nerves and anticipation leading up to this event for all of us. but i had to take a moment, calm down and just, yeah, get ready for the day. >> what about you, sage? what did you do the night before? >> i unfortunately had to skip opening ceremonies because it was late night and we had a really early day. so i just ate a bunch of candy and chips and just got ready. got in the olympic vibe. >> why did i know you were going to say that? >> breakfast of champions. >> watching "fight club 2." >> there were some onion rings in there. >> jamie, some people are not sure about slopestyle. they think it's an x games sport. what do you want to tell those people? >> i would say to embrace it. it's so fun and i feel like bringing a new, fresh energy to the olympic games. and it's so fun to watch.

how could you not? >> we hear you're reading "the power of now." >> "the power of now." >> is it helping you get into the game and get your head in the right place? >> yeah. i've read it a few times over the years. but it's so easy to get ahead in life or be stuck in the past. and the only thing that really matters is right now. right here. >> well said. congratulations. by the way, feel these things. these are so heavy. >> i know. wow. >> your neck tired? >> yeah. >> i'm getting huge neck muscles. >> hope it helps you out there. >> nobody's going to feel sorry for you on that one. hey, congratulations, folks. >> thank you, guys. >> and coming up, we're going to talk to the medal-winning u.s. figure skating team, as well. another major story this morning also tied to the world of sports. it's a surprise announcement from an nfl hopeful. natalie has more on that. >> hey, guys. this is a really big deal in the world of sports this morning. a college football player headed to the nfl has revealed he is

gay. willie geist joins us now with a look at why the announcement is so significant. as we said, this is huge. >> a big deal. one of the biggest stars the nfl perhaps to make history following on the heels of jason collins in the nba. university of missouri defensive end michael sam has now announced and revealed he is gay. the 24-year-old expected to be taken early round of the nfl draft come april is now poised to become pro football's first openly gay player. >> i came to tell the world i'm an openly proud gay man. >> michael sam from the university of missouri and a highly touted nfl prospect announced sunday that he is gay. >> i just want to own my truth before anyone breaks the story about me. >> sam broke the news publicly in interviews with the "new york times" and espn's "outside the lines." but something he told his fellow players last august before the start of the tigers' 12-2 season. >> i came out to my teammates and they took it great, rallied

around me and supported me. i could not ask for better teammates. >> the announcement means the lineman has the potential to become the nfl's first openly gay player. late sunday night, the university of missouri tweeted its support saying, quote, we support tigers of all stripes at mizzou. proud of you, mike sam. he was the defensive player of the year, the best defensive player in the best conference in college football. he's expected to be a mid round pick in april's draft. when the season kicks off in september, sam hopes his future career will be defined by his talent rather than by his sexual orientation. >> i don't think i should be defined as michael sam, the gay athlete, the gay football player. i want to be defined michael sam for being a great person and have great character. >> so natalie, the draft comes up in april in a few months. and you already hear anonymous nfl sources say, well, he could

be a distraction in the locker room with this new issue. but he wasn't a distraction for a team that played in the ncaa championship this year. and won the cotton bowl. >> well, took a lot of courage to do what he did. thank you, willie. wrong way crashes are to blame for 11 deaths in florida and california. five people were killed on a tampa highway sunday morning. police say an suv was driving south in the northbound lanes when it hit a car head on. and in california, six people were killed by a driver traveling the wrong way in los angeles. the 21-year-old driver accused in the crash faces dui and vehicular manslaughter charges. snow and ice expected to coat part of the south this week. two weeks ago you recall cities in the region were paralyzed by a couple inches of snow. the city says it will start treating roads tonight. also in the pacific northwest, several days of snow are causing big problems for drivers from seattle to oregon. portland city officials send out a cell phone alert telling

residents to stay indoors. al will update ous us on the forecast shortly. and oklahoma state basketball player who shoved a fan during a game has been suspended for three games. on saturday, sophomore marcus smart got into an argument with a texas tech fan, the two exchanged words and smart shoved the man. smart later apologized on sunday. now, as for the fan, he has voluntarily agreed to not attend any more texas tech games this season. also coming up, a new coffee shop with a familiar name creating quite a stir in los angeles. the coffee shop, get this, is called dumb starbucks -- not to be confused with starbucks. and it opened on friday. customers are showing up there in droves. the logo on the store, as you can tell, is exactly the same as starbucks but with the word dumb added to it. the coffee shop claims it can get away with it thanks to the parody law saying they are technically making fun of starbucks. a spokesperson for the real

starbucks says they're now looking into it. seems that would be some sort of infringement. the logo is identical. >> i actually saw that story first on the "dumb today show." >> we can get in on a franchise deal for stupid mcdonald's. >> parody law, we're protected. >> oh, no! they've got mcdonald's people there. >> it's a joke. wow. >> no big mac for you. >> no hash brown. >> if i turn up missing and there's some clown shoes nearby. >> you know what happened. how about a check of the weather? >> let's show you what's going on. oh, my gosh, another storm system. our friends at the weather channel calling this pac. look at the winter storm warning advisories and watches stretching from the plains to the southeast. this storm system gets itself together tonight, makes its way through the plains. cold air comes down from it. mixing in with the warmer, moister air. we're going to be looking at ice beginning wednesday morning from

birmingham, atlanta, on into charlotte, back behind it we look for snow. anywhere from 1/2 inch to look around augusta, columbia, atlanta, 1/2 inch to over an inch of ice, this could be crippling. and snow on the backside of this as much as 3 to 6 inches to the north and west of atlanta, 1 to 3 inches up into the virginias. that's what's going on around the country, we're going to get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. hey, good monday morning to

you. i'm meteorologist christina loren. this is a picture of the aftermath in santa rosa. tanglewood creek, a handrail here where a lot of people like to walk. yeah, completely flooded. we're going to get a break. this other picture, near the sonoma county airport. travel cautiously in the north bay. and areas north of the golden gate bridge. we have light shower activity. at this point we're watching for a nice day. and that's your latest weather. matt? >> all right, al. thanks very much. only five days in the competition, these games have delivered memorable performances and a few disappointing defeats. scott blackmun is ceo of the u.s. olympic committee. always good to see you. how are you doing? >> doing great. the athletes are having a blast. and we had great performances, five medals, sage and jamie had gold. it's all good for us. >> you plot this out. look at this advance. you know where the u.s. has a good chance to win medals, when they might come. as we sit here five days into the games, is it going as expected?

>> it's going almost exactly as we expected. we won some medals we weren't sure we would win and didn't win some we hoped we might. overall, we're right where we need to be. >> you mentioned jamie and sage. did you see sage winning a gold medal? >> i did not. but i saw jamie. we watched sage on television. >> bode miller was skiing great going into the final on the downhill on sunday, then he slipped a little. what do you think his chances are of regrouping now and getting ready for his future events? >> if anybody can do it, i think bode can. he's shown himself to be a tough competitor. he's big, strong, we're not worried about bode. >> we want to talk about injuries. we have 15-year-old maggie voisin broke her ankle in a practice run. ty walker has been icing down wounds from the same course, by the way. heidi kloser touched a lot of people in the opening ceremony coming in on crutches and wheelchair, wanting to know if she was still going to be considered an olympian.

how do these injuries set back the team? >> we have a strong team and obviously we'd be a stronger team if these athletes could compete. but we feel really good about the team we have. and all three of them have done great character and she is an olympian for sure. >> let me ask you about some of the courses. bode miller says the downhill is treacherous. and we had danny davis this morning talking about the halfpipe as garbage. what's your view on some of these courses they're talking about? >> we spent a lot of time talking to the athletes. and overall, the athletes really like the course. they like the snow. it's not the same every course is a little bit different. but we actually have been hearing good feedback on our athletes. >> would you prefer if the u.s. athletes wouldn't make comments like that? >> you know, i think it's easier on us and easier on them if they focus on the competition and not some of the conditions. but at the end of the day, our athletes, i think, have been doing great with the press and have been very, very focused on their own competition as opposed to what the others are doing. >> in the media, we have a short

attention span. here we are in sochi, and already there's a buzz about 2024 and a potential u.s. bid to have the summer games back home. cities being talked about, san diego, los angeles, san francisco, dallas, philly and boston. what can you tell me about a potential bid? >> we would love to see a u.s. bid. too early to tell if it's going to be the right time and place. >> who makes that call? >> our board of directors at the u.s. olympic committee. we will decide if the u.s. will submit a bid. we've got until late 2015 until we need to make that decision. and we are in discussions with a lot of the cities that you described. >> we'll keep our fingers crossed. scott, we'll see you throughout the games. thank you so much for coming this morning. back over to the guys. >> i'm just putting a calendar entry for 2025. meantime, the winter olympic games are dominating the conversation online. and jenna hager bush is holding down the -- which room is it?

>> via conata. sochi is the most social olympic games ever, of course, without a doubt, there have been nearly 9 million tweets since the olympics have started. we got some of our favorites from the first day of competition. starting with this picture tweeted by u.s. bobsledder johnny quinn when he was locked in the bathroom and forced to find a way out. he tweeted, with no phone to call for help, i used my bobsled push training to break out #sochijailbreak. and russian snowboarder, alexey sobolev -- he didn't pick up a medal here in sochi, but he did pick up quite a few dates. after putting his telephone number on his helmet during competition, he received over 2,000 texts and dozens of pictures. some of which are not appropriate for our broadcast, by the way. that's one way to pick up a

girlfriend. and all of you probably remember the mulroney not impressed face. there you go. some people say it could never be topped. but she may have some competition from figure skater ashley wagner who was not impressed when she saw her score in the short program the other night. of course, the ashley wagner has become a mean mashable, we put these two together. when you see her reaction to the fifth olympic ring, not impressed. and also if she had the same problem as johnny quinn, not impressed. so i wonder how she feels about being on the "today" show this morning. ashley? >> you're impressed or not impressed? >> she's not impressed. #nobigdeal. can you do the face? >> we mastered that face. >> al roker's got it.

look at it. >> we woke you up in the middle of the night face. >> not impressed. >> all right. jenna, thanks. and as you mentioned, coming up, we're going to catch up with ashley and the whole team usa of skaters. we will find out what they think in the team bronze medal winners. and meredith vieira has the much talked about story of the russian police choir.

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but sandbags are still up. the storm drains flooding costing thousands in lost revenue. let's check the forecast now with meteorologist christina loren. >> hey, thanks, laura. good morning to you at home. i want to talk a little about how much rain we accumulated and what you'll notice about the totals. we converted them into feet because it's easier to see that we hit almost one foot of rainfall in mill valley, napa, checked in with one fresh food of rain. and major totals high atop mt. tam at about two feet of rain over the course of about 72 hours. as we progress throughout the day today you'll notice the showers are subsiding. that's going to continue to be the case. we're going to clear out and dry out so most of those clouds will be left out over our local mountains but overall we're looking good, beautiful air quality, take it easy out there on the roads. speaking of which here is mike.

>> good morning. the roads haven't fully dried out. the sun's coming up. we have mist and fog. this is fremont, look how slow it's developed here south 880 down toward mission boulevard. a slower drive on the maps, northbound through san jose. highway 87 looking better than it did but the rest of the northbound routes slower than before. also southbound through hayward, a crash northbound at whipple in lanes. oakland jams up past the coliseum. visibility an issue. >> pretty foggy. i'll be back in a half hour.

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>> this program got better and better as they went on. what a strong finish for davis and white. >> usa! usa! >> a sign of what is to come. back at 7:30 on this monday morning. 10th of february, 2014. we are looking at that flawless performance ice dancers meryl davis and charlie white. they have the bronze for the u.s. in the first ever team figure skating competition. and the members of team usa are celebrating. >> we got to see that. >> yeah. >> cool, right? >> amazing. >> we'll talk to them in a little while. meredith vieira has the

backstory of our house band this morning, the russian police choir. she's made quite a few friends. >> yeah. that's putting it mildly. >> and can i throw it down? i'm going to learn to talk like a snowboarder. i'm getting lessons from sage kotsenburg and jamie anderson. a new round of snow is adding to a lot of problems in pennsylvania. more than 20,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity. that's six days after last week's nasty ice storm. >> snow, ice and rain causing headaches in the west, as well. portland, oregon, freezing rain led to a number of accidents. and lake tahoe ski resorts received so much snow over the weekend, they are warning of a severe avalanche danger there. >> and despite recommendations against it, a new study reveals 3 out of 4 children and young adults in america consume caffeine on a daily basis. the good news, soda has declined, at least in terms of people's consumption of that,

just slightly. we're going to begin with that historic medal for team usa in the winter olympics in the inaugural team skating event. take a look. >> the first of its kind event continued this weekend when charlie white and meryl davis dazzled in sochi, winning the short program in the ice dance competition and helping push the americans into third place going into last night's main event. >> triple loop. >> reporter: as for the women's short program, u.s. skater ashley wagner came on strong. during sunday night's program, gracie gold scored second in the women's free skate. >> this is magnificent. >> reporter: achieving a personal best while establishing her position as a strong medal contender in the upcoming individual event. her strong performance followed up by davis and white who delivered once again for team usa. >> this program got better and better as they went on. >> reporter: earning the highest free dance score ever recorded,

and helping team usa bring home the bronze. >> and we have eight members of the u.s. skating team with us now. ashley wagner, charlie white, jeremy abbott, jason brown and the pairs team. good morning, bronze medalists. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> so skating is an individual sport. was it fun to compete as a team? was it a bonding experience, ashley? >> absolutely. we've all participated. it was fun for us to go out there and work toward this common goal. >> it was amazing. one thing we noticed in the flower ceremony was that vladimir putin came over and greeted you. did you have any words? i saw him say hello to you, meryl. >> yeah. he complimented us, which was flattering and exciting. >> did that add nerves knowing putin was watching your performance? >> it was kind of a treat for us all right at the end there. it was fun. >> ashley, we're talking about your reaction, of course, on saturday night. i think it's fair to say you don't have a poker face. >> nope. not at all. i wear my heart on my sleeve.

>> but you skated great. was that a real confidence builder? >> absolutely. i needed that confidence. i came off a rocky nationals and needed to prove to myself more than anything that one competition didn't define me. >> and gracie, we saw you last night. you skated beautifully. you've got competition, both of you, with this russian skater 15 years old yulia lipnitskaya. what do you think of her? >> she's amazing. a machine and tough competitor and i can't wait to skate against her again in the individual. >> you can take her, right? >> absolutely. >> meryl and charlie, everyone expects you to be perfect. turns out, you were, but did that add a level of anxiety or intimidation? >> no, it was great. we were able to have the support of our team. we wanted to go out and fight and try to earn that bronze medal. so, you know, we didn't feel like there was too much pressure. >> jeremy, jason, you guys are facing your individual events this week, are you looking for redemption and feeling like you haven't had your best skate here?

>> absolutely. i haven't had close to my best skate. but i got that over with early. and now it's time to focus on the individuals and to, you know, get some more hardware for usa. >> i'm so excited. this is amazing. amazing. i don't know what to say. i can't wait for the individual event, it's been great. the team feel. we're all in this together. we'll be in it for the individual events cheering each other on through it all. i'm really excited to go out there and skate the way i trained. >> finally, no rest for you guys. you go right into it. how are you feeling? >> tomorrow. >> yeah. >> we're ready to go. this is a great warm-up for us. ready to go tomorrow and wednesday. we're going to work just as hard and put out great performances, too. and we're thrilled to be part of such a great team, all such good friends and all really excited to share this moment together. >> it's kind of amazing because you're all starting out as medal winners, already. already going home with the bronze medal. is it pretty heavy? >> i don't think it's hit any of us yet. it's not going to sink in until

we're on that medal stand. >> you have a great crowd at the skating events. we got to see one of them last night. the russians are cheering hard for their folks. does that add to the excitement? make you want to fight even harder? >> yeah. i think it's -- we knew that coming in. that was -- they're going to support the home team. they're great figure skating fans. they know what to look for and cheered hard for all of us, as well. we want to give them good performances. >> so proud of you guys. congrats on the medal. we'll be watching, as you know. thank you. >> and we'll get a check of the weather from al. >> thank you so much. and, again, that same storm system that we were talking about, cause problems for the southeast, may cause big problems for the mid-atlantic and northeast, as well. look what happens wednesday morning. you can see, it comes from the southeast, hugs the coast, according to the european model, and then what happens, it is going to keep the storm track

and intensity? how much rain and snow, we'll have to see. and out west, winter weather advisories, storm watches, we've got more rain and snow coming into the pacific northwest. look at that, we're looking at some areas 2 to 3 inches of rain and snowfall amounts in the cascades, some areas picking up to a foot to a foot and a half of snow. that's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. hey, good morning to you. 7:37 is the time. we've got much needed rainfall over the weekend. right now spotty cells. i don't think you need your umbrella. we're going to clear out throughout the day today. you will need your chains over to tahoe for the first part of the day. look at this. almost seven feet of fresh powder high atop the mountains in kirkwood so we had really impressive totals. not only in the slopes, here in the bay area we accumulated over a foot of rainfall in places like napa, 60s for today. >> and that's your latest weather. okay. you may have heard some of these wild names that snowboarders

have for their crazy tricks. if you don't know what i mean, take a look. >> whipped it out of the bag right there and did a 1620. >> sage's signature move the holy crail. gapping out over into what's known as a front side lip slide. big 720, a stompout. >> a japan is a mute grab tweaked behind your back. kind of adds more crazy flair on the trick. >> what are they talking about? you had fire. you had fire on your board. >> didn't even notice it. >> this morning, we're going to launch al's snowboarding slang class. to help us out, sage kotsenburg and jamie anderson. you've created your own language? >> pretty much. it's gotten to the point where no one understands us anymore.

>> do you understand each other? >> no, we honestly don't. we say stuff and it goes -- >> okay. so what is thois. you use this all the time. >> it's a kind of thing. oh, that was spice, man. jamie's a spice. you can really use it for anything. >> you can use it for anything. what does it mean when you say shredding the gnar. >> pretty much like shredding the mountain, i guess. >> pretty much what we do. >> shredding the gnar. >> hanging loose, you know. >> okay. what's a yard sale. >> a yard sale is when typically a skier takes a fall and all of his equipment or hers is just all over the place. >> all over the yard. all over the yard. okay. if someone is crunchy, is that a good thing? >> crunchy. >> i haven't heard that. >> you haven't heard that one? >> are you sure? >> i don't know. i was told. crispy. oh, crispy.

>> crispy's like something's nice. that was pretty crispy. >> that's what it says, someone got this confused. crispy crunchy. >> crunchy's a new one. >> what happened when you blasted a dookie. >> no, don't say that. that was between you and me. >> what's blasting a dookie. >> i'm not sure about that. >> falling off a ski lift. >> we're making these things up, i guess, as we go. >> kids don't usually fall off, sometimes they'll jump off the chair. >> still trying to get over crunchy. >> all right. guys, thank you so much. and you learn more about sage's awesome tricks at nbcolympics.com. thanks. congratulations. >> thank you. >> guys, that was crispy, thanks. crunchy, too. coming up on "trending," is anyone having a better time in sochi than vladimir putin?

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♪ and we welcome you back now to sochi's olympic park. friday night's opening ceremony gave a lot of memorable moments to a lot of people. but it's really what happened before the broadcast began that still has a lot of people talking. meredith and i had a chance to cohost the event. and we got to see what some people are calling the performance of the night. >> yeah. we knew that the security police would play a prominent role in the olympics, but we didn't know they'd make headlines quite like these. before the caldron was lit or the athletes marched in or the fifth ring failed to open, there were these guys. ♪ >> reporter: the russian police choir stole the show even before the opening ceremony officially

begun. ♪ she's up all night for the fun ♪ ♪ i'm up all night to get lucky ♪ >> reporter: their performance of "get lucky" turned heads around the globe and turned this unique choir into an internet sensation. but these guys are no stranger to the spotlight. the choir has been around since 1939. and over the years have performed more than 7,000 shows in over 50 countries. even performing for pope john paul ii. and apparently, "get lucky" isn't the only surprising song up their uniform sleeve. but "daft punk" that's gotten the world dancing to a popular song they made all their own. i got a chance to meet up with them before the show and asked what it meant for them to be

performing for an american audience. >> translator: i think it's a wonderful moment and through the bridge of the olympics to be able to communicate to the american audience fills me with great emotion and happiness and optimism. >> she's up all night until the sun. i'm up all night to get some. she's up all night for fun. i'm up all night to get lucky. what does it mean? >> the first two lines, there are also some slang moments. we know about them, we're not going to say them. >> so you won't tell me the last time you got lucky? >> translator: it was before sochi because here we're not allowed. and the general says, actually, no, our luck is here in sochi. >> reporter: i got lucky enough to get an impromptu performance. ♪ >> these guys are absolutely fantastic.

most of them don't speak english. >> that's why they laughed at all your jokes. >> that's so uncalled for. >> they've been signing autographs and taking pictures today because everybody knows them obviously and they went viral immediately. they've never performed in the united states and they would love to go. they just need an invitation. i think they're going to get one after today. >> i think so. we're going to hear them sing in a few moments. they're going to show us how it's done with their rendition of "get lucky." >> i'll show you. >> it's not what you think, right? coming up next, your chance to ask your favorite olympians anything you want. we'll tell you about that after this. ♪

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and as the olympic torch burns here in sochi, we turn it over to jenna bush hager in our version of the orange room. >> the what? >> here we are. and you guys decided to stay around and answer some questions for us. we have had questions rolling in the whole time #askanolympian. first, we have kirsten who tweeted. >> i don't know if it's much of advice, but charlie's extremely quick-witted and it can get

ann annoying. he's always ten minutes ahead of me. >> okay. >> so the most annoying thing about meryl, we'll be serious and having a serious conversation and then she'll be on her phone and just be like, actually, though, this is the dog i want to get. >> okay. we can only come to one question, but keep them coming in with the ha#askanolympian. the hollywood star who walked the red carpet dressed like that. and impressive debut on the slopes for sochi this morning for julia mancuso. we'll hear from her.

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good morning to you. i'm scott mcgrew. nearly 9 hillion pounds of beef from a bay area company recalled. inspectors say the meat came from diseased unsound animals not properly inspected. the petaluma rancho feeding corporation. no illnesses have been tied to the products produced last year. more information about what has been affected you can go to our website nbcbayarea.com. >> most of the north bay got rain over the weekend. some in the south bay as well. only the second storm really in the area for this winter. water experts say it did little to quell drought concerns. there have to be several big storms to make a marked difference. let's check in with christina. >> i think we'll sea maybe three more storms before we get out of february which is great news. look at some of these totals. we were asking for the rain.

north of the golden gate bridge, mt. tam almost two feet of rainfall. over the course of 72 hours which is why we had the flooding because our roads and basically all of the topography in the bay area not equipped to receive this kind of rate. as we head throughout the day we're down with the showers, everything high tailing it out of here. tahoe 1 to 2 inches. as much of the heaviest upwards of 7 feet mike. so a lot of people headed that way. where are they headed now? >> headed into something that disappeared. sunol 680, it's jammed coming into sunol. there is the view of the fog affecting the slower drive 680 off to the left side of the screen. that slowdown from the dublin interchange cause as backup through livermore, pleasanton, 580 drags out of the altamont pass. the northbound through the south bay, north 101 past 85 and 85 itself. back to you. >> mike, thank you.

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♪ >> we'll hear from the most decorated female skier of all time. plus the new sweetheart of soech. the 15-year-old russian skating sensation who's taking the winter games by storm. and show stealers. ♪ ♪ >> the russian police choir's performance of "get lucky" was the talk of the opening ceremony.

they're here to recreate the magic, monday, february 10th, 2014. ♪ ♪ >> i want to say hi to my folks back home in chicago. hi mom and dad. >> hello to my mother and father rick and lisa patent in new hampshire. >> mommy misses you. go team usa. >> what's up? >> go team usa. welcome back in. monday morning, february 10, 2014. we're in sochi, russia for the olympic games. i'm matt louer in with savannah and a al roker. >> we had people come all this

way to watch the olympics. i thought we were screaming the loudest for maryland. i think we have people that may have been screaming louder. merrill's mother and father are here. how are you? >> we're good. >> have you been nervous watching your kids on the ice? are you used to it now? >> you don't get used to it. >> did you breathe at all during the event? >> no. >> i said to them a second ago, how do you avoid getting ulcers and gray hair? she said i don't have gray hair. i have ulcers. >> your kids are great. >> thank you very much. >> we know you are very proud. >> we are very proud. >> it is day five of the competition. a lot going on in the mountains. we are joined to catch up on what's happening here. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

it was a blistering weekend. team usa has been fighting for more podium finishes. this monday morning and already another american medal on ice. julia add og ing to that collec with a medal of her own. u.s. snow boarders swept the competition. kotsenburg followed by jamie anderson, both taking gold in the slope style event. >> mother russia, meet your latest champion, the golden girl from salt lake, tahoe. >> i'm so grateful i landed a run. i don't know. i'm on cloud nine right now. >> russian snow boarder won't be bringing medals home. he put his phone number on his

helmet before qualifying runs. bode miller hit more bumps than they bargained for. >> totally sideways in the air. >> he's a half second behind. >> eighth place. his wife couldn't hide her disappointment. nor could he. >> it's hard to pinpoint what it was. it didn't go our way. >> american figure skaters collected a bronze medal in the events, a new addition to the skating games. ashley wagner is pleased with her performance but not pleased with her score. a stellar performance by 15-year-old skater. >> that is a personal best. >> with president vladimir putin

showing his support for russia's first gold medal. >> reporter: if you're a russian skater on the ice in the olympic finals, look around and see your coach, your folks in the spectators and then see president putin. that's got to be scary right? >> that puts added pressure on things. no question about it. >> at least he's wearing a red track suit. >> it's a great equalizer. >> let's go to natalie and look at stories making headlines back home. good morning. >> good morning everyone. the state department is warning americans not to use caribbean airlines for travel from the country. it has received unconfirmed threat information against the airline that flies to new york and florida. this advisory is now through wednesday.

two men were convict in a failed plot to fire bomb new york's kennedy airport. aol is apologizing after the company's ceo referred to the quote destressed babies of two staffers while talking about high health care cost. one of the mothers involved is now speaking out. chr kristin is live with the latest. >> good morning. she accepts the apology but for her, it doesn't change the fact for the little girl who's been through so much is now at the center of all of this. >> joust over a year ago, deanna faye almost lost her newborn daughter. >> it was such a traumatic experience for us, that i to this day, some of my close friends didn't know the story of what happened. >> now the world knows. born almost four months premature, she is one of the so called disstressed babies, a term used by ceo armstrong while talking about the trim to the company's retirement package.

he told staffers, care for the two unnamed quote unquote disstressed babies that cost the company about a million each. >> there sounded like the implication that somehow we were greedy consumers of health care benefits. that we had gobbled up more than our share of the pie. >> faye's husband works for aol. >> it did feel like a violation of my family's privacy. it felt like a complete dehumanization of my daughter. >> on the internet, outrage was instant. armstrong apologized telling staffer, i made a mistake. he reversed the company's benefit change and called the family to personally apologize. >> i don't think tim armstrong plenty to hurt our family. >> armstrong never identified the so called disstressed babies. faye that came forward in the article for the magazine said it was never about benefits. it was about defending her baby. i felt like someone has to

speak up for her. she can't tweet or go on tv to defend herself. she can't justify the spending that saved her life. she didn't deserve to get singled out. >> aol tells me armstrong knows he made a mistake but was trying to point out examples of how the company goes above and beyond for employees. >> kristin, thanks so much. this morning savannah spoke about the head of policy and ceo. >> i understand you've spoken to ceo armstrong. have you forgiven him? i know he apologized. >> yes, i spoke to him last night. i don't to get into exact words he used because i felt he spoke to me as a person to another person and not in his public role as a ceo. he spoke to me in a heart felt way as a father of three kids to a fellow parent.

his apology was heart felt. i appreciated it. i do forgive him. i understand that we all sometimes say things we wish we could take back. >> that's deanna speaking to savannah earlier. although her daughter weighed two pounds at birth, she now looks like a normal 1-year-old and are p recently took her first steps. giant waves are pounding the coast. a couple of pedestrians got too close to the action as you'll see at the bottom left of your screen. that wave four stories tall soaks everything in its path. one person was able to avoid the splash. the other however got a full shower there. talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. just a soaking. that's all. 8:09. let's get another check of the weather with al roker. >> we are talking about rough

weather making its way through. let's show you. i didn't know you were coming at me there. let's see what we've got going on for today. sochi weather. we're looking today. you see the coastal cluster. we head up to mountains. along the coast we'll see showers today on into night. look for morning snow showers, temperatures on the chilly side. weather.com and our friends at the weather channel. 8:10 now. good monday morning to you. we're seeing a lot of improvement. all that rainfall that slammed the north is heading off into tahoe, which is good news for an

additional maybe one to two inches of snow. that system is going to continue to race out of here. highs are going to be a touch warmer out there. that means a return of the mid 60s. wii going to keep that warm-up going. we'll have your seven-day forecast in just a minute. 63 in the east bay today. 62 right here in san jose. and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al. thank you very much. coming up next on "trending," the athlete who is so excited about winning a medal, she almost made a very embarrassing mistake. >> and then matt and al spend a wild night with olympic fans from a country that really knows how to party. >> and can bode miller bounce back after failing to reach the podium in the downhill? we're going to talk about that with lindsey vonn. but first, these messages. wisest kid?

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we are back at 8:16 with a special olympic edition of "what's trending today," or as the russians would put it -- >> i'm savannah guthrie. >> close enough, exactly. let's start with this on monday. what could have been the first olympic wardrobe malfunction here in sochi? take a look, russian speed skater olga had surprised everyone taking bronze on sunday. she, of course, was overcome with joy. you know, it gets a little bit

hot in those tight suits, so olga decided after the race to zip it down. here's the problem. >> she forgot she wasn't wearing anything underneath. she was mortified, smiled, quickly zipped back up. >> which prompted al to say, what's the problem? >> that's a malfunction? i don't think so. we have all been having a great time in sochi. but no one is having a better time than the president vladimir putin. take a look at these pictures. it is a russian president like you have never seen him before. putin showing up to watch russia win gold. we were there. we saw him at the team figure skating competition sunday. clearly in a good mood, taking selfies, hugging kids, banging drums, and yes, you saw that smile. he was smiling. >> kept going, mr. putin! mr. putin! he didn't come over. >> and you got tackled, right? >> i did.

>> not really. >> your slopestyle athlete is about to compete and you're a coach. what do you do? pray, close your eyes? no, how about knitting. that's what the coach from finland did. passing some time with cream-colored yarn and cream-colored yarn at the top of the slope. it will be handed off to finland's team before the summer olympics in rio. >> how long it will -- >> might be a little hot in rio, but they'll have the scarf anyway. >> good to know. and that is -- >> in russia? >> and that is spo -- >> perfect russian! perfect. >> announcer: today's olympic moment is brought to you by coca-cola. open a coke and enjoy the games. now it's time for today's olympic moment and a star is born in front of an enduring home crowd. take a look.

russia is celebrating a new skating princess arrived. >> mesmerizing and so powerful. >> she was only 3 when her teammate won his first medal in salt lake city in 2002. a year later she would put on skates for the first time. now at 15, it's yulia's time to shine. >> gotten a lot of attention but she is the buzz. >> in her olympic debut this weekend she wowed the home crowd and the world with a flawless short program. >> triple lutz. triple to. absolutely no problem. >> reporter: on sunday, another magnificent performance in the team figure skating. >> flexibility. watch this go up -- >> reporter: winning the hearts of her president, her country and the world.

>> pretty great moment and now, today's athlete to watch. mancuso seems to shine at marquee events. bronze in this morning's super combined. >> she's got it! she's got gold, julia mancuso. >> reporter: a gold medal moment classically mancuso. giant slalom in torino from an underdog that can't be counted out. >> easy to be in your own mental game, even if someone's beating you all the time you always have an opportunity at the olympics. >> reporter: that gold medal was followed up with a pair of silver medals in vancouver. once again, mancuso was sporting her now trademark tiara. >> i think just by winning two silvers in vancouver inspired me to try to get gold nen in sochi, and that's what i'm hoping for. >> reporter: now at 29, mancuso says she's hit her stride.

>> i don't feel old at all. i feel like i'm just peaking. i feel just getting stronger and i've learned so much from the past years to get to where i am now. >> reporter: the california native who grew up skiing in the hills of olympic valley isn't comfortable unless she's traveling somewhere. >> i probably send nine months out of my own bed. >> reporter: when she's not dominating the mountains, she's often exploring what's beneath the surface in hur part-time home of maui. one look at julia's facebook page reveals the many sides of this outdoor enthusiast. chronicling her road to sochi -- >> hi, mom. hi, dad. >> reporter: on social media. >> my job, be outside. a lot of hard work and training, but that's what i love to do wrtry four olympic and five championship medals, mancuso performs best in a pressure cooker situation. a serious competitor who doesn't take herself too seriously. >> commentary -- ah!

>> reporter: and a real team player in a truly individual sport. >> it's really an interesting situation where you live and eat and do everything with your biggest competitors, but at the same time, we're all competing against the clock. so -- really it's up to you and making the best turns. >> that was a huge mistake! >> reporter: with a difficult start to this season and disappointing results, mancuso recently took time off from racing to recharge. >> i have the confidence and i know that i can ski really fast and i can ski really well, and i can just use that to help me get to the finish line even faster and kind of take some of the pressure off. >> reporter: the recent lag seem as prime opportunity for julia mancuso to do what she does best. prove once again you can never count her out. >> we'd never count her out. i love a skier spends part of her year in maui. >> that's great. >> something for the mind. that's important.

>> i like the tiara. >> talking about the mind, you think about olympics most think about medals. talking about matt and i, we have to think spandex. >> right. made it a tradition to do a sport together, usually a closely guarded secret. this time, letting you in on it ahead of time. if everybody's ready, here in sochi, we'll give one of your favorite sports another go. that's right. we're going to be riding the double luge one more time with a twist this time. >> spandex? >> matt on top? >> i'm on top this time. last time you made every conceivable wall i. was consistent. >> that's right. >> this time, i'm the pilot, and we'll see if i can best you and not leave you with bruised elbows and shins. >> you're actually going to train! going to train this time around. right? >> we're going to train a little. that's right. of course, leading up to our sequel run this friday, all week long we'll show you our training. today we learn how to celebrate like an olympian.

>> that's part of the training? >> part of the training. >> no fans celebrate harder than the dutch. my wife happens to be from the netherlands i figured i would fit right in. >> reporter: my first night here, take you to the hot spot. the holland heineken house and figured, this is the place to go. >> do me a favor. it's going to be crowded. let me handle the conversation. leave it up to me. i speak dutch. >> buddy, we're going into the dutch -- so -- [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> what's that? >> act normal. >> all right. come on. >> whoa! >> everybody says this is the house to be in. >> yes! ♪ >> so i'm matt. >> hi, matt. >> [ speaking in foreign language ]. [ cheers ] this is al. >> hi, al! >> okay? [ speaking in foreign language ]

okay. >> the dutch love to trade -- up to this young lady and say, i'll give you a pat on the brook. >> a pat on the brook. oh, oh! >> that's -- a spank on the tushie. >> a spank on the -- >> okay. all right. ♪ ♪ yo -- yo ♪ >> why is the holland house the craziest out there? >> we are the best people to make a great appeared. [ cheers ] [ singing in dutch ] >> positive, that's the last time we'll be invited there. >> whose fault is that? >> not my fault. >> i asked you, how do you trade pins, not how do you pat somebody on the tush? >> they're very close. >> they're not very close mr. i speak dutch! >> so pat for the brook. who knows. i got confused.

>> that happens a lot to you. >> exactly. >> tomorrow we'll learn to dress very good morning to you. it is 8:26. several families being allowed back into their own homes in east san jose this morning following an 11-hour standoff. swat officers were trying to catch a wanted felon in the home not star from story road. authorities say the suspect barricaded himself inside the home around 6:30 last night. officers convinced the suspect to turn himself in about 5:30 this morning. he was wanted on several charges, including offenses related to weapons. no one was hurt. let's check that morning commute. how is it looking for a monday? >> looks like a white screen, but with the help of gabriella there, there are some cars there. low clouds and fog around the

area of oakland. mostly low clouds hanging out there. but you can't see 8:80 clearly. we do see a slower drive. our traffic and weather systems tightening together. it's reporting that there may be foggy conditions through the oakland hills. of course, those roads will get fog. here's a slower drive, but actually starting to sort itself out nicely for 880 and orange continues over that area as well as coming through the saratoga area. highway 9 might be an issue. back to you. >> welcome to monomorning. we'll be back with another look in half an hour.

>> and welcome back. >> the fast and furious frenzy of short track speed skating beg begins, tonight at 8:00, 7:00. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> and we are back at 8:30 on this monday morning. it's the 10th of february, 2014. that's the russian police choir. do you recognize that song? >> is that tom jones? >> yes. it's tom jones. which is obviously part of their repertoire. you may remember they had that scene-stealing performance of "get lucky" right before the opening ceremony. >> he's spot on tom jones. >> i know. they're awesome. we're going to hear their rendition of "get lucky" in moments. >> almost looks like mr. bean doing tom jones. >> he looks great. do you know who tom jones is? >> kind of. >> that's okay. >> meanwhile, remember the woman i sat next to on lovers bench over at the rivera park in sochi? well, guess who showed up to enjoy the festivities here at our plaza. someone who was just in the park that day.

and one of our videographers convinced her to join me that day. apparently it worked. >> apparently it's still going strong. the love is strong. she's back. >> she's local. >> valentine's day this week. >> there you go. don't you start. >> do they have restraining orders in russia? >> exactly. also, coming up, lindsey vonn is going to join us live and give us her take on skiing competition so far, including her reaction to bode miller's finish in the downhill. >> okay. is lindsey vonn crispy? >> not crunchy. >> okay. >> we're hopeless. let's get a check of the weather, al. >> let's show you what we've got going on as we look for a monitor somewhere. i know what i'm talking about. you can see for today, we are going to be looking -- that's right. let me try this one over here. i'm going to try this one over here. hey, there we go. a lot of wet weather through the southeast. icy conditions also up into the mid plains, look for wet weather

in the pacific northwest. sunny but cold making its way through the plains today. tomorrow, frigid air from the northeast. my grandmother had a frigidaire. sunny and warm. the older folks got that one. but look at that icy condition from texas all the way into the southeast and more wet weather making its way through the gulf coast. that's what's going on around thank you, al. 8:33 now. just tracking some residual moisture at this point. most of this is clearing out of here. tahoe still getting some pretty decent snowfall after accumulating over seven feet of fresh powder in the higher elevations over the weekend. today, temperatures are going to rise back into the 60s. kind of the warmest afternoon that we've had in over a week, if everything pans out. 63 degrees in the east bay. south bay at about 62 degrees. we do have a warm-up headed our way before that next round of rain moves in. we'll talk about that coming up. k you so much.

well, scott blackman, ceo of the u.s. olympic committee is back with us, along with debra berman. nice to see you guys. tell us about the round-up program that jc penney is doing. >> sure, the round-up is our way of supporting our customers' interest in team usa. we have two opportunities we gave them and had an awesome response. there's the opportunity to buy the mittens. and when they came into our store in the month of january, we rounded up to the nearest dollar. and with olympians from 38 different states and jc penney stores and basically every single one of them turns into a whole lot of money. >> this goes to the olympic committee. means a lot. because people thinks the government funds these government funds these olympians, but it does not. >> we're one of the only countries. and this donation will actually cover the cost of sending 30 of our athletes to sochi. it's a big, big deal. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. >> you've got the ceremonial check right there.

[ applause ] >> usa! hey hey, usa! hey hey, usa! >> thank you so much. when we come back, lindsey vonn is going to give us her take on the olympic competition so far. >> yep. including bode miller's downhill. and the russian police choir will recreate the "get lucky" magic live. but first this is "today" on nbc. ♪

♪ ♪ where you think you're gonna go ♪ ♪ when your time's all gone? [ male announcer ] live a full life. the new lexus ct hybrid with an epa estimated 42 mpg. ♪ the further you go, the more interesting it gets. this is the pursuit of perfection. welcome back to sochi, the opening days of this winter olympic games have delivered a number of headlines on the slopes. let's put them in perspective with gold medalist and olympic correspondent lindsey vonn. good morning to you. >> hey matt. >> hey. it's good to see you. let's start with the women's super combined. it happened today. julia mancuso taking bronze in that. what did you think of her performance?

>> well, obviously, i haven't seen it because it's not on nbc, which will be tonight. but i did hear about the results and i heard she had an amazing downhill run and hung on for the bronze medal. i'm really happy for her. she's always a game-day contender. and, you know, really psyched for another medal for team usa. >> yeah. and i know one of your good friends is the one who won that event. would you like to say anything to her? >> yeah, i mean, she called me after i had surgery and has always been a really good friend. this is her third olympic gold medal. i'm really happy for her, as well. she's just a really great person and it's always nice to see someone like that on the top of the podium. >> in the men's downhill, bode miller was skiing well. and then things went wrong on the lower half. as a skier, do you know when precious seconds are slipping away in the middle of a run?

>> yeah. sometimes you can tell. sometimes you can't. i thought bode had an amazing run especially on the top. he really executed things well. he didn't seem nervous. normally if you're nervous right out of the gate, you won't ski well. bode came out of the gate charging and made a few small mistakes that ended up costing him time. i bet he didn't even know he made mistakes while he was skiing. it was so slight. >> and he's got a lot of skiing left to do. how do you regroup mentally after a disappointing finish, lindsey? >> well, there was so many expectations on him in the downhill. he's got this performance out of the way. he's going to be more excited, more motivated to keep pushing himself the next few events. he has a chance to get a medal in three more events. he's got plenty more chances. >> yeah. i want to ask you for your perspective on another story that really kind of captured my heart. and that was heidi kloser who is the skier who shattered a knee

before the games even began. she came into the opening ceremony with crutches and a wheelchair. and the first question she asked after her injury was am i still an olympian if i got injured before the opening ceremony? as someone who has dealt with injuries, what's your take on this story? what did you think when you heard that? >> of course she's an olympian. she qualified, you know, the hardest thing to do is just to qualify for the olympics. and i thought it was really amazing she walked in the opening ceremony. she deserved to be there. she is an olympian and, you know, she's going to be back and she's so young, she'll be back in the next four years. >> yeah. i just thought it was so nice that clearly that was so important to her that she be considered an olympian. i couldn't agree with you more. she is one, not only in terms of her physical ability, but also her emotional side, as well. lindsey, thanks so much for your input on this.

we'll be seeing you a lot over the course of the next couple of weeks. >> thanks. oh, hey, by the way, you should probably never wear that hat you wore in the last segment ever again. from one friend to another. >> you didn't like that? a little too pointy up top? >> yeah. you know, just -- no, never. >> i thought it looked like a hershey's kiss. okay. that's a deal. thanks for the tip, pal. up next, from communism to capitalism, what's it like to be young and rich in modern day russia? but first, this is "today" on nbc. [ male announcer ] when three world champions face off

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but seriously, there's been a new russian revolution. the rich russians are here and all around the world. >> reporter: $500,000 cars, $11,000-hotel suites. >> and that's not negotiable. >> reporter: russia is not what it used to be. we met her at her home. well, one of her homes. >> reporter: so you live in this wonderful house in the snow for only part of the year? >> oh, yeah. and the rest of the time, i live in florida. >> reporter: what else to do but go shopping? >> reporter: and here we have a ralph lauren. >> reporter: in moscow's most expensive mall. >> reporter: how many fur coats does a russian woman need? >> five, six. >> reporter: six coats? >> how much is this coat?

>> $5,000. >> reporter: $5,000? >> yes. >> reporter: in the sale? >> it's a good quality. >> veronica runs a london concierge company geared to help rich russians spend all the money they're making. here, sampling caviar. >> very strong taste. >> reporter: russia's new businesswomen work hard and play hard and love luxury. one place they find it is in london. >> my family came from very little in life, but both my mother and my family, we've achieved a lot. >> the new generation. what are they doing to make their money? >> the next generation of russians, the wonderful thing is that we've always had this culture to work. >> reporter: also in london, actress and model katia ilizarova. >> what do i need to wear?

>> that depends. if you're a girl, you need to have high heels. we're coming from a country that is famous for diamonds and furs. of course, it's something that girls aspire to have. >> okay. >> we are here where you can find the most amazing shoes. >> tell me about this new generation of young russians. >> this shop is good example for new young entrepreneurial russians who want to work internationally who knows languages and travel a lot. >> so we have churchill and roosevelt. >> and we'll have somebody else to replace him. somebody a little less fierce. and definitely more blond, me. >> reporter: and a reality check here. 35% of the wealth in russia is owned by only 110 russians. there is real inequality here, you know. >> oh, yeah. >> but it was interesting to

hear the new generations of russians talking about putting aside the bling thing and now they want to be a bit more sophisticated. don't want to show off so much. and during the research of that piece, i used your credit card, natalie. >> nice. good. thank you. >> no problem. >> a lot of rubles. >> yeah. >> where are you from? >> texas. >> who are you here to root for? >> team usa. >> anyone? >> all the athletes. >> we saw sage win the gold. he killed it. it was amazing. >> all right. >> all right. thank you. coming up next, is everyone ready to dance? >> yeah. >> yes. russian police choir, we won't make you wait one minute longer. we'll get their performance. but first, this is "today" on nbc. almond.

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moment right before the opening ceremony performing daft punk's "get lucky." good morning to you, general. it's a pleasure. nice to see you. alvina will translate for us, okay? how many performances do you and the men give each year? [ speaking russian ] >> translator: around 200, generally, a year. >> and have they ever performed in the united states? would they like to? [ speaking russian ] [ speaking russian ] >> translator: when we first made the choir, we performed at

japan and in france and still not been in the u.s., and it's my greatest dream. >> i think they're going to have many offers of this performance. but they've become youtube sensations. are they surprised by the reaction? [ speaking russian ] >> translator: it's a great surprise, and we're very, very pleased. >> thank you very much for your help. general, without further ado, would you like to perform? ♪ ♪

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good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. days of rain has exposed a new problem on the bay bridge. water was found underneath the road deck on the suspension stretch of the eastern span. that's supposed to be water tight. some experts do worry that could pose a risk of corrosion. as for the rain, let's check in with yis tina.

>> the doppler tells the story, scott. for some of us, it's definitely a good story, because it has been raining relentlessly up in the north bay where we accumulated over a foot of rainfall in the city of napa. as we head throughout the day today, these showers will continue to career out. we're headed towards the 60s later on. i think you'll like the warming trend you have in store. you'll notice on the ends of your screen there. the seven-day forecast shows you close to 70 in south bay. this may sound like a long shot,

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from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today's take." with al roker, natalie morales, and willie geist live from the olympic winter games in sochi, russia. >>nd welcome to "today" on this monday morning, february 10th, 2014. we're live from olympic park in sochi, russia. i'm willie geist along with al roker and natalie morales with this beautiful backdrop behind us, the olympic flame, the caucasus mountains. got here safely, got here in one piece. >> yeah.

>> you've already been partying. >> that was fantastic. >> you hit the ground running. because you went right away to the hollen house. >> we were delayed in new york because they were checking everybody's carry-on bags. >> right. >> before we got on the plane. but we had a good time. there's natalie reading. >> catching up on my russian. >> she took a year of russian. >> i didn't realize that. >> i can still make out the alphabet. as i'm around it, i'm picking things up. >> 33 letters? >> 33 characters. yeah, some are letters and some are silent sounds. >> last week, when i'm bringing my word of the day, i would start at 6:00 a.m. trying to pronounce it and natalie would go, that's not how you say that. >> i've forgotten everything. everything i learned. >> but we had a great time. >> who remembers anything they learn in college? >> that's a different story. >> that's a whole other deal. >> especially russian. >> how much do you really use that? >> i was hoping some day a lot.

>> why did you take russian? >> for this reason. i knew there'd be an incredible olympics and i could sit here and show off my russian which i know nothing. >> but you also speak every other language basically. >> no. >> you're in. >> yes, i'm in. >> we're in business. meanwhile, speaking of music, we've got music behind us. >> we don't have the russian police choir. >> but they were good. having a great time. >> yeah. >> are they as good live as they are on youtube? >> i think they are. and the lead singer to me looks like mr. bean. >> got a little mr. bean in him. >> i think it's the facial expressions. >> great pipes. >> yeah. well, from russia to pretty soon hopefully the u.s. because people love them. they've become huge internet sensations overnight. it's an incredible story. >> good energy they brought out here our little makeshift plaza in sochi. big news going on in competition. julia mancuso, of course, the

veteran american skier added another medal to her resume today. she took bronze in the women's super combined. that puts the downhill together. another medal, the most decorated american skier. also, the u.s. women in hockey. they beat switzerland. it was 9-0. talk about a crushing blow. >> this u.s. versus canada. >> versus canada, which is exciting. >> two best teams in the world, they'll play on wednesday night. >> i hope i'm there. yeah. >> five medals, three bronze, two golds. >> speaking of gold medals, we racked them up this weekend. we have with us, who is going to come back for more, been hanging out all morning long. we have sage kotsenburg, in the men's snowboard slopestyle event, and jamie anderson also won gold in the women's slopestyle event. and they're such great people. so much fun to hang out with. >> really? >> practicing his word.

>> snowboardlingo. >> i don't think we're allowed to say those things. you've got to be cool. and let's be honest. >> that's not happening. >> they're cool. i think the country and world has fallen in love with the two of them. not only the way they performed in such a cool event, but the way they conducted themselves afterwards in the interviews. they said immediately, he said that trick i just did to win the gold medal, i'd never done it before in my life and i blacked out in the air slch. >> oh, my gosh. 3 1/2 turns and then grabbing the board. we'll ask him about it. never done it before. >> improvising in the biggest race of his life. >> in fact, he is now the first u.s. man to win gold on russian soil. >> is that right? >> yeah. >> because boycotted the 1980 games. the. >> yeah. >> we got to see team usa the

skaters take the bronze medal. and u.s. figure skater ashley wagner also has -- was there, she performed really well saturday night. but a lot of people are talking about her performance saturday night because she thought she did a great performance. and she did. >> yep. >> she came off the ice with a glowing smile. and then quickly -- >> okay. >> right there. >> oh. >> she saw the scores and then it was kind of like, what? what are you talking about? >> yeah. this is compared to mikaela maroney, not impressed. they could go on tour together. >> honestly, i don't understand the scoring system. i don't think anybody understands the scoring system when it comes to the skating. it used to be easy, holding up the sixes. i don't get it now. >> all kind of technicals. >> i know. >> the technicals and the computers, we don't need that! just with a guy with a chalk

board going -- >> yeah. >> the good old days when you could hate the east germans because the east germans were always bad, always doing things like that. >> who do we blame now? who do we blame? >> i don't know. you blame the computer. it's all the computer's fault. >> it's incredible. >> even the east germans loved this girl. >> 15 years old. what a future ahead of her. yulia lipnitskaya. >> that's right. her family's right behind her. >> incredible performance. we stood up. it was a standing ovation last night for her. amazing young woman and making figure skating history. youngest gold medal olympic skater. >> one writer today said she performed cartilage-defying moves. like right there. >> you can't do that. >> her leg bends backwards. >> it shouldn't happening without you hearing screams. >> i think it was even ashley

wagner who said she has no spine, clearly. >> she's a jelly fish. >> and now, of course, from south korea was a big favorite in the individual. and now people saying, wait a minute, what about this 15-year-old, yulia. >> and vladimir putin was in the stands. >> he was enjoying. >> he was there. it was like he had gotten something from tony sparano's closet. >> the red track suit. >> the red track suit was fantastic. >> i grew up in jersey, i can say it. that was pure jersey. >> hey. how you doing? >> i think that's the russian uniform, though. supporting the team. >> looking good. how about you? >> his games, he wears what he wants. >> come on. it's my country. these are my olympics. what do you want? >> all of a sudden -- >> what do you know? >> we have a full show, packed

full of olympics for you. other things back in the states. so many snow days this year. >> right. yeah. >> a lot of people getting the day off school because of the weather. for a small number of students around the u.s., a snow day is no longer a day of rest. schools in at least five states, ohio, illinois, west virginia, indiana, pennsylvania are allowing e-learning days. that means students even if they're home, they get assignments, work sheets, got to bring it in the next day. >> i like that idea, keeping busy. >> one official predicts the number of e-learning days will increase in the next ten years and learning will take place anywhere. >> the good news on this, it helps. a lot of school systems, they're now eating into vacations. >> summer vacation. >> summer vacation, spring vacation. so, you know, i think it's a great idea. >> at this rate, our kids will be in school until july. >> yeah. it's hard to see the argument against it. some people say the teacher's not present, the teacher evaluates the work.

>> and it's also a help to the parents if you're keeping up with the studies and giving the kids something to do with all that time. >> in fact, home schooling -- >> yeah. i like the idea. going into al's weather, we would never last. >> no, never. >> especially not somebody falling. >> a pair of joggers stopped on the streets of portland, oregon, by a local news station to talk about the snow. watch what happens as they jog away. >> yeah. we're both california kids. we haven't had many snow days in our life. this is exciting. >> well, go ahead and keep on the run, sorry to have kept you. i appreciate you talking with us. >> stay warm. >> thanks. >> we've seen a lot of people out here running, sledding, enjoying it. one thing -- oops, that can happen, unfortunately. looks like chelsea's okay. you okay? >> thumbs up. she's okay. >> we got the thumbs up. she's okay. little bit of a bruise.

>> tush bone. >> she'll be feeling that for a couple of days. >> yes. >> a little weather going around. >> you know what, our friends who got hit a couple weeks ago down south birmingham, atlanta, let's show you what we've got going on. winter storm watches, warnings. stretching from texas all the way to the carolinas. here's what's happening. this low pressure system's going to get together on the weather channel we're calling it winter storm pax. it's going to bring rain to the south, but then cold air filters in down by wednesday morning. look at that pink. atlanta, birmingham, on into charlotte, talking ice. look at the amounts we're expecting by wednesday afternoon. 1/4 to 1/2 inch, atlanta, anywhere from 1/2 inch to 2 inches of ice. that is crippling, potentially. and then on the backside of that, we get snow on top of it. so there'll be another 1 to 3 inches generally and some areas in the carolinas especially in the mountains, we'll see 3 to 6

inches of snow. meanwhile, we've accumulated six to seven feet of snow up in tahoe, above 7,000 feet, just over the past 72 hours. take a look at some of these very impressive rainfall totals. these are your local totals. we converted them into feet for you. we're talking about two feet, mount tam. just about one foot in mill valley, whereas we did hit that foot in napa. temps are going to hit the 60s this afternoon. . and wednesday/thursday from the delmarva into the northeast, we could be looking at significant snow. >> oh, no. >> incredible. meanwhile, it's downright balmy here. >> yeah. >> it's kind of chilly. >> during the day -- >> this morning it was like 60 degrees. >> 60 degrees. >> beautiful. >> winter olympics, baby.

>> can't complain. coming up next, the two americans who have done what no other olympian have done before, scoring gold in slopestyle. the early stars of these games. >> yeah. ♪ [ woman ] i will embrace change... everything life throws my way. except for frown lines. those i'm throwing back. [ female announcer ] olay total effects. nourishing vitamins, and seven beautiful benefits in one. for younger-looking skin. so while your life may be ever-changing... ♪ ...your beautiful skin will stay beautiful. total effects from olay. your best beautiful. total effects from olay.

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>> sage kotsenburg and jamie anderson brought home the gold. so proud. you guys winning gold medals in the snowboard slopestyle competition. >> good morning, guys. three straight days on the "today" show with us. thank you so much. thank you for -- >> might as well join you guys every day. we'll be here every day. >> sage, i've got to ask you about the move. you were talking about is it the 1620 japan? >> yeah. >> really, honestly, never done that before? that's the one that won you the gold medal. >> swear on my life, never tried the 1620 backside, 1620 japan. just landed it. >> you think, you know what, this is the olympics. i've got to do what i know what to do. >> it's kind of my move, though. i don't know, just never really think about my runs. i had no clue what i was going to do even the day -- >> come on, you don't plan that out? >> well, i plan on the features i think i'm going to do the

tricks. i like changing it up a lot, making things different. >> as i understand, it was your brother who convinced you to go for it. >> my brother and my coach. i talked to my coach. i was like, might go 1620. he's like you got it. you're in the olympics. and i called my brother and i was like, yeah, man, i might go 1620. and he's like, yeah? you never tried that. are you sure you don't want to go 14? i know you got it. you got it. go have fun and i know you'll stomp it. >> stomp it. that means like -- >> stomp it -- >> means huge, nail it. >> we ought to start using that on our show. >> 1620. >> right before the show, willie? are you surprised some of these haters out here about the idea that this competition doesn't belong in the olympics that it's more x games? >> really? >> what's going on with that? come on. >> i actually thought we -- i heard we had really good

reviews. i didn't know there was a lot of hating. >> yeah. tons of fans. >> oh, of course. >> this is such a popular sport. >> what's the craziest thing that's happened to you since you won the gold medal. the whole world knows your name know. somebody who e-mailed you or texted you. what's the wildest thing that happened? >> oh, my gosh. how to choose one thing. there's just been -- >> it's been a lot. >> yeah. it's been chaos. my website e-mails have been going off. so many people want posters and this and that and just going to forward them on to my sister and manager. you guys take care of this for me. >> i've got to ask you. there's this great photo. sage you took this of jamie on instagram right before jamie competed. what is this thing she's wearing? >> wait. i forget what it's called, but you're supposed to use it after your compete. >> really? >> yeah.

there's something to let your legs rest. she was standing in it before she went. >> i thought it was good before, too. >> yeah. >> it obviously worked. >> use it. >> what music do you listen to? what were you listening to during that gold medal run? >> that run i was listening to "i know i can." motivational song. >> so hear it during the runs? >> yeah. it was blasting going into the last jump. i'm like, i know i can. >> and you go another direction, sage. >> yeah. sometimes i'll listen to music in my runs, but in the last year, i've been just listening to music before my run and take them out right before. >> but you go like slayer, metallica. >> yeah. all that stuff and then also some rap in there for sure. i had l.l. cool j. before. i put in "night crawler" before

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i didn't know they made chicken. crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna? can i get another one of those actually? [ superfan ] hey, america, we're here to help. a very good monday morning to you. several families being allowed back into their homes in east san jose this morning following an 11-hour standoff. authorities say the suspect barricaded himself inside a home about 6:30 last night. officers convinced the suspect to turn himself in about 5:30 this morning. he was wanted on several charges inclu including offenses related to weapons. this morning's storm caused problems across the bay area. in the north bay, four straight days of rain turned downtown mill valley streets into rivers. this morning, the waters have

receded but sandbags are still up just in case that water rises again. a storm drain overflowed flooding nearby businesses, costing thousands of dollars in lost revenue for them. we'll have a look at the forecast and your morning commute after this.

we've got a good-looking day shaping up. 61 degrees is the forecast high along the peninsula. 62 degrees in the south bay and 60 degrees in san francisco. plenty of low cloud cover, at least until about lunchtime. most of those clouds will be left over, kind of hugging our local mountains. that will be the case for the most part today. as you can see, showers are heading out of here. as we continue throughout the next 48 hours, we're going to gate nice dry period. and then we get that next round of rain as we head through the midsection of your week. >> talking about the rain, we're getting that break christina talked about but we also have that moisture in the air. look at all of this.

still slow southbound going to left side of your screen. that's southbound 680 heading up into those clouds where it becomes fog, because that's what happens when the clouds kiss the roadway. we're looking over here. a little slow southbound heading out of pleasanton. rippling back as far as that relief goes now. we have a slower drive for north 880 and also west 580. the live cameras past the coliseum, you can't even see the roadway. there are low clouds between the top of the roof and the deck, the cluttered roadway through the area. a slower drive as well after earlier crashes caused a backup. now things are smoothing out through berkley. back to you. >> thank you for joining us. another local news update coming up in half an hour. enjoy your monday morning. stan the man! hey, how's it goin stan? can i get $55 on pump three? [ cashier ] you got it, stan! [ music stops ] oh. [ male announcer ] gas stations. just that. [ male announcer ] where nobody knows your name. hey. [ male announcer ] the chevrolet cruze clean diesel.

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>> aww. that is the cutest thing ever. maybe the dog is scared of the dryer. >> dog protecting baby. that's incredible. >> isn't that amazing? >> i love that. they are friends for life. >> startles the baby. >> yeah. >> and the dog knows that and poodle runs over and protects the baby. >> they get it. >> you might keep the blow dryer away from the baby. >> al roker's always thinking. >> well, if you did, we wouldn't see that. sun rises until about 8:20. >> it sets early. >> i thought i overslept. it's 8:00 at night! >> you don't see the lights through the curtains. what's going on? >> no. crazy. >> no sun. what's going on with the weather? >> besides the storm that we're going to be looking at causing

problems for the southeast, we've also got to worry about it making its way up. but here, sochi, we've got showers coming in later today here in the coastal cluster. and then at rosa khutor, we're going to be looking at morning snow showers and a temperature about 28 degrees. rest of the country for back home, we're looking at that system making its way up along the coast. brings ice and snow to the southeast. and this one track keeps it right along the coast of the nor'easter, we will be watching this very, very closely. that's what's going on what's gn well, we've got a good-looking day shaping up. finally going to see a return of the 60s. 61 degrees is the forecast high. 60 degrees in san francisco. plenty of low cloud cover at least until about lunchtime. most of those clouds will be left over kind of hugging our local mountains. that will be the case for the most part today. you can see showers are heading out of here.

as we continue throughout the next 48 hours, we're going to get a nice dry period, and then we get that next round of rain as we head through the midsection of your week. and that's your latest weather. >> you know it's been seven years since we found out that the winter games will be held right here in sochi. but now, of course, the eyes of the world are on this resort town. >> it's a place i'm not sure a lot of people have heard of before the games. i got a chance to check out the seaside city and how it's transformed now into a winter sports power house. >> reporter: it is about as unlikely a place for the winter olympics as you can imagine. but someone around here thought big, very big. >> the xxii winter olympic games in 2014 are awarded to the city of sochi. >> reporter: and the rest of the world said, where? russia is ready with the answer. here in a black sea resort closer to istanbul than to

moscow. back in soviet times, it was a worker's paradise, a beach vacation here was a dream come true. but today, this town of 400,000 has been transformed and is quickly learning to welcome the world. just south of sochi, the town of adler is home to this, the first ever winter olympic park. six venues within distance of each other. if it's happening on ice, it's happening here, including hockey, curling, and speedskating all in once place. sochi is the warmest city to host the winter olympics. on average in february, about 43 degrees. but ice among the palm trees is one thing. a short ride up the road takes you to sochi's alpine crown jewel, the mountain cluster, a brand new train makes the run in about 30 minutes bringing athletes and spectators to one of the world's newest ski resorts, rosa khutor. just up the gondola from base

camp is where the alpine, freestyle and snowboarding events are happening. and while it is a bit colder than on the coast, the organizers have a stockpile of snow on hand just in case. and with an eye-popping price tag reported to be somewhere north of $50 billion for the olympics and all the infrastructure needed to make it happen, russia is poised to deliver something spectacular. and in some ways they have delivered something spectacular, that opening ceremony was absolutely incredible. the cool thing, we've noticed how close everything is here in the olympic park. about 100 yards. you can walk from one to another. >> the most walkable olympics. >> and they have the world cup. so sochi is ready to shine. >> got the formula one racetrack. hey, our good buddy billy bush has made his way. he's going to let us in on why the number three is -- look at that. what is that move?

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apartment on 80-something and lost your wallet. >> no. >> had to go back. >> i forgot my wallet. i got here. >> al -- >> i got here on time. >> i know where my wallet was the whole time. >> you were gone for three or four days! >> we settled that score. >> al, is in the room above me. and this is -- all night long in the hotel. you hearing this? does debra know what's going on? >> tell us about the spa, billy. you got here in time to go to the spa. >> yes, i've been here less than 24 hours. i want you guys -- i needed to relax. this is me in a tub. but look at my partner. >> is that scott hamilton? >> that is the great hamilton right there. fish attacking the feet. >> that's wrong. >> that's the pedicure. >> they used to come down -- this is the south beach of russia, this place. they would come down -- this is extremely relaxing. they do everything hard, including relaxing. >> did you ask for the extra small tub with scott? that's what it looked like.

>> there was room for one more. >> it wasn't a jaquzzi, but we did see bubbles. >> hey! so three is the magic number. i'm always looking. >> shaun white. >> shaun white three consecutive gold medals if he wins here, torino, vancouver, if he does it, he dropped out of the slopestyle. we know he did that. but why? the canadians are saying you had no chance to win, bro. he's saying, wait a minute, i dropped out because i don't want to risk injury. so a little controversy with him and the canadians. if he does it, i think he drops the mike and walks off. 1,000 meters. the guy -- i watched, "42" on the plane. i love this guy. young black kid from the south side of chicago. the face of speed skating. he is just unbelievable this guy. i think if he wins this, he gets rightfully mentioned alongside bonny blair when you think of

this sport. love this guy. >> he's got a presence. i was in the athletes village, shani davis walks in and -- >> everybody knows him. >> and he's grown into that leadership role which we like. >> all right. gold. big last name. >> three u.s. athletes named gold, woman, guy named gold has ever won. gracie gold was here a while ago. hollywood's got a script ready to go for gracie gold. she's fantastic and the literation. taylor and ariel gold, there's no kid who wants his sister tagging along. he pushed her into the sport. it would be nice. love them. >> sisters, the three canadian sisters competing here. >> i have three daughters, and i just -- look at these girls, they're sisters, incredible. the youngest one, 19, justine takes the gold in moguls, her middle sister 22, takes silver, the oldest sister didn't even

qualify and said i'm just lucky, living in the same house because i can learn from the two best in the world. >> wow. >> these girls are gorgeous. >> gorgeous. >> that's my favorite photograph of the games so far. >> almost as good as billy and scott hamilton in the hot tub. i know. >> they're holding hands. >> well, you've got to find a way to get this guy on the air and i have. keeping with three as the magic number. three decades of olympic competitio competitions. how did he get into the games? here he comes. he is the one man skiing. >> but he's not really mexican, right? he's german. >> he's a descendent of german royalty. >> that's the outfit, the real story. >> i think he could wear that. >> they call him the most interesting olympian in the world, 55 years old.

>> he started 1984, and let me tell you, that was his career-best performance, finished 38th. if he medals in this, let me tell you, everyone else fell down. but he's a great champion and we'll be rooting him on. >> you need that uniform when he's done with it. >> walking around the hotel in it. >> like that. >> you're the greatest. >> thank you so much. coming up next, now that we've settled in, time to find out what russia is all about. right after these messages. you know i read something today that made me think of the first time i saw you smile. you laughed at my dumb joke. i remember the first time we kissed. the first time i made you cry. i want you to take care of yourself. because there are still more firsts i want to share with you. ♪ [ male announcer ] talk to the women you love. get started with progresso heart healthy soups

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sports desk reporter nastia liukin is joining us. >> by the way, i got here a few days earlier, we've been knocking down homemade vodka. >> homemade? >> you want to explain what that tasted like? >> not my favorite thing in the world. it's so funny because everybody asks me. well, you're russian, you have to drink vodka and i don't. >> it's very authentic, shall we say. a little bit of a burn right here. >> don't remember anything after that. no, nothing at all. by the way, you can see that piece coming up. she's doing great work in the olympic zone. >> i do. >> we're ready. >> first question, in the movie "from russia with love" who plays james bond? bob simmons or sean connery. >> sean. >> yeah. good job. al gets that. >> that was not hard. red square in moscow is named for the brick road, true or false? >> false.

>> correct. it's actually -- natalie you might know is red, but back in the day -- >> no. >> well, now you know. back in the day it was a word to express beautiful. it kind of expressed the whole red square being beautiful. now they don't use that word very much just for the color. >> what is beautiful in russian? >> you guys all got that, guys? okay. a kumbayah. >> rank these countries in order of size. canada, russia, united states. >> b, russia. >> wait. >> russia, canada, u.s. >> good. good job. >> i just give the first answer. >> whatever it is, it's russia. >> composed which of the following ballets? >> "nutcracker." >> hold on. swan lake, sleeping beauty -- >> all of the above. trick question. >> good job.

in one of the "rocky" movies, fights a russian -- >> wait, wait, wait -- one of the lines is, we are finished, yes? is it from "rocky 2," "rocky 3" or "rocky 4." >> four. >> good job. created the periodic table of elements, true or false? >> that is true. >> i read that in the notes. >> and 1985, which band performed live from moscow live. queen, autograph or judas priest. >> queen, the other one. >> no, the other one. >> autograph. >> who's autograph? >> i never heard of autograph. >> oh, they went on to a great career. >> i didn't know that. >> okay. and last question, russia spans how many time zones? four, seven or nine? >> i'm going to say four. >> nine. >> seven. >> al got it right.

>> nine time zones? >> that's huge. >> it is huge. >> al wins. al, the run away winner, actually, with seven. >> have you spent a lot of time in russia? >> no, i didn't. but matt told me all the answers. >> matt didn't do very well. i quizzed him earlier. he failed this quiz. >> but this time i knew all the answers. >> yeah. right. >> what's the word for beautiful again? >> you can say very beautiful. >> this is a quiz show scandal. >> thank you so much. great to see you. >> we're going to get to try a little vodka. i'm ready. >> it's russian water, so they say. but first, this is "today" on nbc. [ male announcer ] when three world champions face off

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background music, everybody partying. when you're in rome, you drink wine. >> but in sochi, you drink vodka. >> what better way to welcome natalie and al to russia than with some good old fashioned vodka tasting. the international brand ambassador for russian standard vodka. tatia tatiana, welcome. >> thank you very much. >> so let's talk about, this is really the water of russia. the most important booze you have here, right? >> water of life, right? >> it's our national spirit and our favorite drink. and it is the deep meaning of vodka, which comes from the word water. it's the water of life. so it's been with us for centuries reviving the ill. even know, if you feel a bit under weather, having a cold or upset stomach, have a little shot of vodka to help or lemon and you'll feel better. >> just what the doctor ordered. >> home remedy, i like it. >> how do you know what's

good-quality vodka versus not good quality? >> you don't care. >> i don't know the difference, honestly. >> we know in russia. in the west, a lot of vodka created with the mix. we know what vodka should taste like. it's a little bit spicy, it's not too harsh, made a little bit sweet because we use wheat for it which gives the sweetness. >> and tatiana -- >> those who like it in a cocktail, which we make. it has to be russian standard. it's very simple to make even at home. >> we're running out of time. >> you mix it. >> okay. >> generous amount of russian standard original. >> kathie lee and hoda, you've got vodka there, too

i'm scott mcgrew. an alaska airlines flight just made an emergency landing at san jose international airport. the plane took off about an hour ago from sjc headed to honolulu, but returned soon after takeoff

because of some sort of unspecified emergency. we don't know what. 140 people onboard, including the crew, all landed safely. nobody hurt. we'll continue to watch it. nearly nine million pounds of beef from a bay area company have been recalled. federal inspectors say the meat came from diseased and unsound animals that were not properly inspected. no reported illnesses have been tied to products, which were produced last year. for more information, you can visit our website, nbcbayarea.com. let's check weather and christina. >> well, we've got a good-looking day shaping up. finally going to see a return of the 60s. 61 degrees is the forecasted high along the peninsula. 62 degrees in the south bay and 60 degrees in san francisco, with plenty of low cloud cover at least until about lunchtime. most of those clouds will be left over, kind of hugging our local mountains. that will be the case for the most part today. as you can see, showers are

heading out of here. as we continue throughout the next 48 hours, we're going to get a nice dry period and then we get that next round of rain as we head through midsection of your week. >> as christina said, the rain is heading out of the area, but we still have the cloud and the moisture. there are clouds in this area, as you're driving through the area, they drift down toward the roadway, especially coming out of sonoma and down through there. this is northbound past the coliseum. also from our rooftop camera here, kind of heads in the clouds. there's some slowing, but notice 580 westbound, that has cleared up quite a bit over the last half-hour. still slow, as you would expect by this time. west 24, an earlier crash. it has cleared. we just have a slower drive heading toward the bay. >> all right, mike. thank you much. we'll have another local news update for you in a half an hour.

from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hello, everybody. hope you had a gre weekend. it is fun day monday, february 10th. >> we have a crowd. they're not the only ones with a crowd in russia. we have some people. >> yes. >> yes, we do. >> they're broken hearted that home hoda and i are left. >> when i came up here, everybody was going no one's here, no one's here. i go, we're here. she goes, hi. >> she should know it is the very beginning of the random acts of kindness week.

she didn't start that out very well. we're doing something nice for somebody today that is very unexpected. >> how was your weekend? >> a good weekend for jimmy fallon. >> this was his final show. you always wonder at the end of something, we know he's starting something new, if he'll be melancholy or choked up and he was a little bit of everything. >> i love jay, by the way. yeah, yeah. let's look at jimmy the other night saying good-bye to his last show. >> this is the final "late night with jimmy fallon." i want to thank quickly the roots. i'm not going to cry. i'm going to get really close. because we're not going anywhere, we're doing "the tonight show." just emotional. higgin. >> aw. >> then he sang with the muppets. >> that works for me. >> he showed a little bit of his new studio. we'll see it on the 17th of

february when jimmy fallon debuts. i can't wait. >> i heard jay spent the weekend doing stand-up in florida. three shows of stand-up. good. >> he's never going to stop. >> he'll never stop working. he's a great stand-up comedian. >> how about opening the paper normally, eating cheerios and you come upon this page. this page. all these pictures of mariah carey busting out of all of her clothes. and they compared her to -- >> yes, jessica rabbit. anyway, it barely all stayed on. she climbed up on the piano apparently. no dysfunctioning of the outfit. >> i do that all weekend long myself. >> you can be -- if you're careful, you can avoid the malfunction. >> what do you make of that, wearing that to sing? what do you make of it? >> well, it is not the first time we have seen mariah wear dresses like that. just that -- the further south mine goes, the higher up my neckline does.

so i -- good for her. i don't know how old she is. >> they're still perky. >> very perky. i don't know. it is just hard to keep your attention on anything other than that. >> i know. she's got a great voice. >> she knows how to sing, so i don't know. i don't think she breast-fed. i'm not sure. but she had her two twins, but those look like they're right where they started. >> all right, so, your weekend is over, it is monday. do you have what a lot of people have, which is called weekend regret? >> oh, yeah. >> there is a new study out that says more than a third of us realize that after we're done with our weekend, we look back and say that weekend was awful. i wasted it. >> i wasted time. i did all kinds of stuff. >> most people feel like they just caught up with things they had to, instead of taking the opportunity to do a couple of things that they really loved to do, which the weekend should be for, to restore, fill up the well, you know. >> how was your weekend? >> my weekend was good.

had a little guacamole and martinis one night. i met with two of my friends who are here in the studio as we speak. right behind, ann and rob are behind us. i think we'll get one little shot of them. >> probably not. >> visiting and i went to college with ann. >> they're in siberia, which is close to sochi. >> witness protection program. >> yes. >> had a very nice weekend and saw the carole king musical again and i can't wait until wednesday when we see it again. >> people were tweeting me that they saw you. they said they were so happy that you were sitting next to them. you went again. i'm looking forward to it. >> a lot of highlights from the olympics. one of them happens to be this police choir. they look very stoic and staged and they bust out -- >> into moves? >> they have moves. they bust out into -- well, let's take a look.

♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♪ we're up all night to get ♪ >> they were on opening. you don't expect it. >> i'm sure pharrell and daft punk were excited to watch them rocking out to their song. so the olympics are on. like you, over the weekend, you start getting in. >> you start getting in, absolutely. >> so far we won two gold, three bronze medals. >> team usa swept gold in the snowboard slope style, brand-new thing, both sage kotsenburg and jamie anderson came out on top. sage kotsenburg is our new favorite guy. >> he is. >> he does a jump here that he decided right then, yeah, maybe i'll do that. he nailed it. >> he didn't even plan it. people are asking him, when did you decide to do the quadruple whatever it was. he's, like, just before.

just minutes before. the cool thing about him is -- >> what isn't cool about him? >> he hasn't worked out since september. >> i love that. >> he wasn't at the opening ceremony. he was in his hotel room. >> eating french fries -- >> and candy. >> let's listen to him. >> so i just ate a bunch of candy and some chips and just got ready, got in the olympic vibe, you know. >> why did i know you were going to say that? >> breakfast of champion. >> watching "fight club 2." >> some onion rings in there. >> dude. >> i love that guy. i don't want him dating my daughter, but i love that guy. it reminds me when buster came to the door, remember? >> what? >> when i told you the story about this guy, back in high school, this guy named buster that looked a lot like him, and he came to the door, just looked at my father and he goes what, what do you want? he's, like, can i see, like,

kathie. and he goes, kathie doesn't live here. it got to my father. who is this guy? and why do you like him? we used to say, it's burster at the door. that guy is buster at the door. i love him. >> one of the phenoms of the olympic games is this young russian singer named yulia sk e skater -- >> skater. what did i say? she's one of these people who every olympic someone bests out and you go who is this kid? she's 15 years old. check this out. >> this is unbelievable. ♪ >> and she's -- they say she's,

like, rock solid, has nerves of steel and just -- >> completely fearless. >> at 15, you don't know -- >> is ignorance bliss in a way? >> i think once you've been close and you have pressure in your head, you can think about that in your life in anything you've done. >> i don't know. not knowing is hard to say. when i was 15, no, i had no kind of any of that. i would have been a wreck. >> yeah. >> we'll have johnny weir and tara lipinski with us and they'll talk to us about -- >> live, right? >> we're part of the sochi olympics. okay. we have vodka, okay? we are part of it. we want to be included. don't we? >> you know what else we have? we have a fan of the week. yes, we do. let's surprise our fan of the week. >> and the winner is maggie van zummeren from illinois. she watches us on ksvk 5. she's with two of her sons

michael and joey who wanted to be here to support their mom. hi, maggie. congratulations. >> hi. thank you. >> hi, guys. >> hi. >> hi. >> hey. >> so excited. >> hey. >> before we tell you what you've won, we want to tell everybody why we picked you to be our lucky winner. okay. you watched our show every day since it began. >> wow. >> been a long time fan of kathie lee. she used to watch kathie lee when she was on the air with this other guy named regis. maggie even met kathie twice in the '90s. has photo proof of it. >> oh, my gosh. >> is that cody? is that a baby in. >> is there a baby? i had a wardrobe malfunction. yeah, i can't see. >> oh, my gosh. >> that's so nice, maggie. >> look at you. >> wow. maggie, i guess we know -- i know maggie very well apparently. >> you're girlfriends. >> maggie, thank you so much. is that a bra sitting in front of us? >> no, that's the coconuts.

>> oh, the coconuts. wow, maggie, we have been through a lot. lovely. >> maggie says when we paired us together, she thought we were a great combo and our show was the one hour -- all right, maggie, the pictures are fantastic. thank you so much. are you ready to hear why youer you're going? >> now the kids. >> you and a guest will head to the fabulous -- i love this place -- santa barbara beach and golf resort located on a rare natural preserve in the caribbean island of curacao. during your five-day, four-night stay, lounge by the pool, relax on the white sandy beach and try a variety of activities from golf to biking. look at this place. >> you're also going to get breakfast daily. you have a stay at an ocean front bedroom, accommodations furnished by the santa barbara beach and golf resort. what do you think? >> oh, my god. that's just awesome. thank you so much. >> are the kids going with?

are you taking the kids? >> yes, we are. >> there will be a mutiny. talk about fight club. thank you so much, maggie. god bless. >> coming up, set that dvr, we have heartthrobs with us. >> something tells me that's what they're all to see. we'll talk to the cast of the show "teen wolf". >> and tara lipinski and johnny weir will talk all things sochi. [ female announcer ] dove body wash has a secret. really? is it the richness? it's like nothing i've ever felt before. what's the secret? i'm waiting. [ female announcer ] it's the noticeable difference it makes to your skin. dove body wash, a breakthrough formula with nourishing nutrium moisture and our gentlest cleansers ever. for the care you deserve. what do you think now? i can see a difference. love! [ female announcer ] discover the secret of dove. this is different. this is care. ♪

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time for "today's buzz," we get you caught up on the celebrity gossip you can't live without. >> justin bieber to jessica simpson's dramatic weight loss, brian balthazar has everything is. >> it is good to see you. >> there were news over hoffman over the weekend. look at this picture we have. amy adams, happens for carrying a valentino bag. she's not a paid spokesperson of valentino but their people sent out a press release saying we would like to announce she's currently holding our valentino bag. what people didn't realize is she's on her way to philip seymour hoffman's wake. so now there is this press release -- >> a memorial service. >> yes. so basically there was this outrage, everyone that gathered, that's not okay. valentino's people said we didn't realize she was on the way to the wake. >> you can't tell where she's

going. >> a lot of the photos services do carry captions saying where the person is going. it is anybody's guess. but valentino apologized and amy adams knew nothing of what was going on. that's the blowup. >> they never do that on purpose. that would be -- there is a difference between ignorance and stupid. they just didn't know where she was. >> i agree with that. let's talk bieber. >> let's talk bieber. so two things. one is michelle obama is weighing in on basically the mom in chief of what she would do if she were justin bieber's mom. >> how did her comments come about? >> being interviewed by univision and one of the topics that comes up. she said she would pull him close and basically, you know, be available and around a lot for a lot of listening and being available to him. and, you know, there is recent developments, he had that rented lamborghini in miami and the new report is that it reached speeds of 136 miles per hour. >> first they said 50 and then --

>> there is a report. during the period of time it says he was drag racing, it wasn't going that fast. so we do know he tested for some alcohol and allegedly marijuana, but also that this speed was all over the place. interestingly, if you're going to rent a lamborghini, it is going to have a gps in it, it is going to track your speed. so i understand you're actually close to justin's mom. >> i am. patti is a friend of mine, i love her. i spoke to her this morning. i knew we would be talking about this. she's with him right now. and what i would say to mrs. obama and to anybody else that has something to say, which i think mrs. obama had lovely advice, but her children are still living under her roof, you know? justin is now going to be 20 years old march 1st and he is -- he is paying for his own life now, he's out -- she says every time i have a chance to talk to him, and give him advice, i do it. she's a very, very hands on mother. and she said jeremy, who they never were married, but they had their tumultuous relationship,

justin's dad, jeremy is a different person now and is trying as well to be there for justin, but, listen, my kids are not in their teens anymore. you -- once they leave the house, you can give them all the advice you want, they're not going to sometimes take it. so you got to stay close to them. they have to still want you to be around. if you're constantly -- they're not going to want you to be around. >> to people criticizing him, if you really are concerned about him, don't condemn him, pray for him. >> exactly. >> i do every day and i know his mom does definitely. >> jessica simpson is in the news. >> jessica simpson, had a baby in june, is just -- just posted a photo on instagram of herself, second child. look at her in this sexy black dress. >> when did she have a baby? >> in june. just before shooting a weight watchers commercial. she's an avid supporter and paid sponsor. look at her when she was pregnant. look at her now. remarkable transformation. >> i want somebody to give me $4

million to lose some weight. >> what about the lego movie? remember we had -- >> i saw it. i saw it coming. i did not see the movie. i knew it would be a hit. it looks hilarious. >> we love the kid. >> it only cost them $70 million to make. monuments men was number two, got $22 million. george clooney, matt damon. >> did not get the reviews they wanted. >> it is the highest rated movie that george clooney had directed and it is a totally -- you have the kid and maybe the parents and a friend. you're going to have a bigger box office for a kids movie in this case. >> okay, brian. >> is that it? >> thank you. >> it is man day on the fourth hour, right? you didn't call me a teen heartthrob, by the way. >> you're a big boy one. >> yes, you are. >> okay. thank you, darling. do you use food as a reward with your kids? >> you might want to change your ways when you hear what our newest joy fit member has to say

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can't believe it has been five -- there has been a lot of action on the snow and ice. >> from a 15-year-old russian prodigy to a wardrobe malfunction that all the guys in the office had to replay, we got you covered with former olympian and nbc figure skating analyst johnny weir and tara lipinski. hey, guys! >> hi, ladies. >> look how cute they look. >> they take a lot of care about what they wear. you share a dressing room, right? >> well, we have adjoining rooms, so it is lots of fashion fun. >> yes. >> how is it, guys? you're at the olympics. you are such competitors and to not be out there, what is that like? >> well, i'm so recently removed from the competitive figure skating that i still have that competitive urge in me. when i'm commentating for these guys, i just want to be on the ice competing against them. but i'm so honored i can bring a personality, i can bring the training to the forefront so that america can really understand what is going on in our sport. >> you know what they're going to do. you know the jumps that

they're -- certain places they're going to attempt. do you find yourself, like, doing it, the muscle memory thing? >> sometimes -- this is a joke among us, i get real nervous. >> tara gets very nervous. >> tell us about this young phenom, this 15-year-old girl, everybody is talking about. yulia. to us she came out of nowhere. is she known in the skating world? >> well, she is. i've been watching her all season and i really think she's a dark horse of the ladies event. she's just so cute. she's this little china doll with this face that is just behind it such a steely competitor. and she's the whole package. she really can jump, she can spin, she can -- she can skate. she really is a triple threat. >> you would know because you're the youngest gold medalist ever in the history of the olympics, right? >> in individual event. so now yulia is the youngest in

a team event and i'm so proud of her. >> just by a few days, though. >> were you fearless then too? did you not even realize what was at stake? >> you know, you really do. everyone is talking about her age and saying, well, maybe she doesn't really feel the nerves, but you do. in a way, it is harder because you don't know what to expect. you don't have the experience some of the older skaters have. you go out there and look around and think, oh, my gosh, this is my one chance, i'm at the olympics. >> real quick about the wardrobe malfunction, everyone is talking about it. we see things on the red carpet, not usually on the ice. what happened? >> well, i think she just is so used to wearing undergarments and for speedskating they get new costumes by the sponsors for the olympics. and, you know, who better to look at topless than a, you know, in shape, you know, in the best of her life speedskater or any olympian. they should do the naked olympics. >> yeah. >> she basically just pulled it down thinking she had something else on and didn't realize until

afterwards, right? >> well, the adrenaline gets to you. you forget everything that there is to know about life. all you're thinking about is that race and that run. i [ female announcer ] yoplait greek 100. 100% greek. 100% mmm... so mmm, you might not believe it's 100 calories. yoplait greek 100. there are hundreds of reasons to love it. yoplait greek 100. it's an invitation to stop and savor

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not far from story road. authorities say the suspect barricaded himself inside a home around 6:30 last night. officers convinced the suspect to turn himself in around 5:30 this morning. he was wanted on several charges, including offenses related to weapons. nobody hurt. days of rain have exposed a new problem on the bay bridge. water found under the road deck on the suspension stretch of the eastern span. that's supposed to be water tight. some experts worry that could post a risk of corrosion.

we've got a good-looking day shaping up. 61 degrees is the forecasted high along the peninsula. about 62 degrees in the south bay and 60 degrees in san francisco, with plenty of low cloud cover at least until about lunchtime, and most of those clouds will be left over kind of hugging our local mountains. that will be the case for the most part today. as you can see, showers are heading out of here. as we continue throughout the next 48 hours, we're going to get a nice dry period. and then we get that next round of rain as we head through the midsection of your week. >> and in fact, not just hugging the hills, we're also hugging san francisco with those low clouds. the deck of the bay bridge is moving clearly and slowly. the lights are still on. in oakland, the clouds are starting to move, but southbound we have those sweeper trucks and that's what's causing some slowing past the coliseum.

fremont, you can barely make out these clouds. the south bay is clear skies. >> glad i'm already at work. more coming up at 11:00. see you then. we're back with more of "today" on this fun day monday. this is the last morning to set your dvr. the teens and tweens in your life will be very grateful. >> we have got some of the hottest stars in hollywood here. remember back in the '80s when "teen wolf" starring michael j. fox and the cult vampire thriller were big hits? >> now millions of viewers are sinking their teeth into mtv's "teen wolf" loosely based on the movie of the same name and three of the stars are here. >> welcome, you guys. >> thank you. >> this is usually a very dead time during the show behind you. honestly, the people who you brought out, the fans, the homemade signs, is this normal

where you go, they go? >> every time we come to new york, yeah it pretty -- everyone knows where we're going to be in new york. so it is always -- this is pretty routine now. >> i get that at the car wash every once in a while. >> we brush our teeth. >> outside my shower is really weird. >> do you ever get used to that kind of adulation because they don't know you, do they? >> they don't. i think twitter made it seem like they know us. but they get into our lives. >> they're very into you. you've been on the air for -- whether four or five or six seasons. but did you know -- did you know from the beginning you had a hit on your hands? >> i was saying i said it when we shot the pilot, i think we could do six, six cycles of 12. everybody laughed a little bit. but i think we probably are going to hit it. >> you all have experience in this business. you've been around. what about you, holland? >> we're newer actors.

it is great when the fans are so involved because it is not that they like us as actors. there is a whole culture, they like our show. >> i think there say lot of luck going on out there. >> two tylers often don't have shirts on. >> vampires get hot. >> true. very true. >> how much wine have you had today? >> none, none. >> tyler. >> do you have to work out extra hard because you know you'll be -- is that part of your -- >> this guy does. he works out like a mad man. i've never seen anything like it before. like a terminator. i don't care at all. i eat pizza and -- >> you're our favorite guy, the snowboarder, doesn't work out, wins gold medals. >> which is why i hate him. >> into the fourth or fifth season, if you have not watched the beginning -- >> cycle. >> cycle. do you recommend people binge watch and catch up?

>> i think -- yeah, you want to watch it from the beginning just to get a grasp of everything. if you watch it from any season, it is really entertaining. you can fall in love with it no matter what. if you want to know the back story to everything, watch from the beginning. it is entertaining. >> every season is like its own new miniseries. always a new story. but the background of the characters, there is a lot from the beginning. >> should we play a game? >> totally. >> there are lots of werewolves in pop culture. we'll play a game and figure out who knows the most about them. which professor in the harry potter series was a werewolf. >> loopen. >> yes. >> you have slaying to do. in the twilight series, werewolves smell bad, only eat meat or can outrun them. >> smell bad. >> it was a series called twilight. >> who sings the song

"werewolves of london," justin bieber, bruce springsteen or warren zebon. >> you guessed. >> who won? not holland. no. >> one of the tylers won. >> you need to get out more often, sweetheart. >> you guys, thank you. >> congratulations. you're all adorable. >> all right. >> you can catch teen wolf monday nights on mtv, but you probably already knew that. from a wolf to a real fox -- >> what does the fox say. >> how to get the style. and our two joy fit club members -- >> dramatic weight loss reveals after this. ♪ ♪

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we're back with "the joy fit club" and two new members who struggled with their weight since childhood. >> both decided to get healthy and change their eating and drinking habits for good. they lost 310 pounds combined and joy bauer, the leader of the joy fit pack is here. >> how are you? >> this is our olympics. our weight loss olympics. you're going to meet two incredible people. first is pam from missouri. and she started -- before she started her journey, she was 285 pounds. she struggled with obesity her entire life and she vividly remembers those mean spirited, horrific bullies and she told me

about middle school and in high school, she would get phony phone calls to her house, from the mean kids, claiming they would be diet centers wanting to recruit her for weight loss. so a few years ago, her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. he had five weeks to live. he looked around his hospital room, at her, her mom and her brother and he said, we are incredibly unhealthy and we are all going to die young. she didn't want to die. that statement resonated with her and she went on to lose 150 pounds and she's a personal trainer now. >> here is pam's before picture. all right, pam, come on out. let's see you. join the joy fit club. >> oh! >> oh, my gosh! >> you look amazing. >> you look great. >> thank you. >> how long did it take you to drop the weight? >> about three years to get the final 100 off. >> that's a great dress. >> i think the most impactful change she made, she was

drinking 12 cans of soda a day. so in one week, this is how much soda, 84 cans. before you consider the food she was taking in, this da was over 14,000 calories and 20 cups of straight sugar. now -- >> is that hard to believe now? >> yes, very much so. >> drink of choice, water. zero calories, zero sugar. >> good for you. >> you're exercising too. what kind of exercising are you doing? >> a lot of cardio, elliptical, i can run, i can do a 5k now. >> she's training for -- she's doing a certificate to become a personal trainer. of course. >> tell us about -- >> next is a heartthrob. his name is alejandro. and he came from a tight knit venezuelan family where food was love. you know that traditional latin food. super fattening. by age 15, he was 314 pounds. and sadly he dealt with a lot of those same bullies that pam had

dealt with. one night, this was a life changer for him, he had eaten so much, he was so uncomfortable, so sick, he couldn't fall asleep. he stood up, looked in the mirror and said good-bye to the fat boy and he literally changed his entire life. he lost half his weight. half his weight. he's about to walk out here. he's, like in the latin community, this huge celebrity weight loss guru. >> what? >> yes. >> let's see the before picture so we can remember. come on out. join the joy fit club. >> oh, my. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> look at this guy. >> unbelievable. >> come on! >> wow. >> that is awesome. >> thank you, thank you. >> how long did it take you to lose that weight? >> you know, two years, year and a half. >> he's been like this for ten years already though. >> ten years, yes. >> that day when you said

good-bye, fat boy, that much been such an epiphany. >> it is. i keep it real every day. i try to inspire every day. and based on my culture, i think a diet needs to feed your culture. it needs to be -- right here. here, i have the rancheros, tortillas and plantains. you can eat this, but healthy. that's why i created this personal diet plan with a latin flavor because i think everyone at home, you know, should have the opportunity to actually try this and lose it because, yes, you can, people! >> all right! >> congratulations. >> yes. >> wow. >> now that you're inspired to drop that extra weight, we'll show you the olympic workout to get you in shape. >> we're going to need to burn off the vodka and bellinis that jill is about to -- >> yes. >> right after this when you discover brookside chocolate,

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oh, in honor of the 22nd winter olympics, we thought it would be a good time to learn about russian culture. nbc decided to send everybody under the sun to sochi except us. >> when it comes to food, fashion and beauty, russian style is unique. they have one thing in common with us, they like to drink and so does contributing editor for

"people style watch" and author jill martin. >> hi. to start this off, vodka as we know, you go to buy bread, you have a cold, anywhere you go, in russia, you do a vodka shot. so these are real. and these are water. so -- >> vodka. >> beluga. >> beluga is a vodka. so you chase it by pickles. everyone can afford pickles. so they always had pickles and pickle juice. the pickle is a chaser. >> interesting for a stomach ache. that's crazy. >> everything. the cold, picking up the kids, everything. cheers. >> okay. >> wow. >> okay. >> followed by a pickle. i should have not done that. let me finish. okay. blinis. so russia was the first nation to export caviar. so it is considered a luxury -- i just spilled pickle on you.

everybody take one. a mess already. >> pretty much. >> so this is -- you can't have that. >> okay. >> what's this? >> can i have this? >> traditional soup. that's the traditional soup. these are really the must haves if you're throwing a party in honor of the olympics. >> that's good. >> okay. >> you see these everywhere. the russian woman is so glamorous. snowing out, going to buy bread, anywhere you go, a woman is decked out. this is all faux fur. you'll see a lot of fur there, but everything here is faux fur. look how cool is looks. i have one on too. this is san diego hat company, starting at $30. the gloves. everything you see is very glamorous, very over the top, very done up. okay. vogue and bcbc, these are the glasses. russian women wear glasses, anything trendy, anything that is in. you will always see it on a russian woman, especially the younger generation. they are right off the runway.

>> they look perfect. >> okay. >> boots. you always see a woman in a high heeled boot. always as they're walking around. these are russian inspired. and i wanted to show the lower version in case you don't like to walk in heels, with the faux fur lining, but you see here, the wedges, the heels. they are always dressed up, always glamorous. >> more options. >> you can wear these with tights. that's great. so let's move on to jewelry. even if you're putting jewelry on, you do a shot. >> what is this? >> with jewelry? >> anything. anything you do a shot. the jewelry -- >> is it? >> i don't know. >> the jewelry is a way to express your personality. does not have to be diamonds. it is just look at it as a piece of art. all the composer and artists that came out of russia, this is really a way to express yourself. so jcpenney, under $30. now, no matter your demographic, you have a bath house, like a sauna. could be in your house, attached

to your house, but for everyone. that's what you do. you do a shot before you go in as well. at home masks are very big. i like this one because it is five minutes from alba. >> you put that over your beautifully made up face. >> and i'll just wash it. put the moisturizer on. when you're sitting in the steam -- okay, beauty, again. beauty. russian women spend about five times more on beauty products. >> that's amazing. >> always -- they would rather leave the house naked than without lipstick. so vibrant colors are the way. you see them in the front. these are by urban decay. full coverage foundation. these are by amazing cosmetics. this is for hoda this is for klg. these are the tones. they come in all different shades. this is mine. marriage what i like about these, you can layer them. you don't have to put it on and feel like, you know -- >> okay. >> couple of seconds.

nails always big, vibrant. and then perfume is a big deal. fragrance.com, a lot of designer, everything designer. and they drink pickle juice in the morning. come on. >> pickle juice? >> i love it. >> train like an olympian at home. >> exercises to get you into tip-top shape. >> first this is "today" on nbc. >> careful over there. ♪

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how to look like an olympian is brought to you by chobani, naturally powering team usa. >> it is time for "today's" olympic action and how to get the body of an olympic athlete with moves you can do at home. >> one guy with all the right moves and knows about being in top physical form is tim morehouse, member of the 2008

u.s. silver medal olympic fencing team. >> yeah. >> how are you? first, go team usa. >> you're into it? >> i'm into it. this is the perfect day for us to come in. watching the olympics, pumped up, want to jump up and do some exercises. i got exercises you can do at home to get into olympic shape. >> we have a ladder here. >> think hopscotch as a kid. this is a great exercise. you can do simple things, run through it. if you get more complicated, there you go, kathie lee's got it. i got a more complicated one. one, two, land in your box and jump back. excellent. this will get your heart rate up and work your leg muscles. yeah. you guys are excellent. perfect. and so a lot of winter olympians can't do everything on the ice like figure skaters, they can set up a ladder, you have a great workout. couple of minutes and your heart will be up and getting a great workout. so these are kettle bells, you can do a lot of stuff. i'll demonstrate one to you guys and give you one you can do.

this is the kettle bell swing. so for this one, you get in a twerking position to start. this is good for the olympics, more twerking. just we'll go this way, and pull it back. and thrust out. so this is a kettle bell. >> good for your back. >> if you do it in the right way. that's why it is important you really get your -- >> you get your tush out. works your core. for you, we'll grab the kettle bell and you'll hold it, right here, this will be great for your core and you'll do a little dip, down. excellent. little squat. come up and push out. and this is a great workout you can do at home. >> what else could you use? >> anything at home that is weighted you can use. and the bobsledder punch through the door in his bathroom. this will help you do that. >> all right. >> this will build up that strength when you get locked in the bathroom at the olympics or at home. other things to do at home, modified push-ups, everything we do as an olympian, we try to add

a dynamic aspect to it. even a push-up, go down, and then turn. >> oh, jim. >> that looks so easy. >> so easy. >> if you like to do this, you can. and then this is probably the most intense workout you guys can do. >> a few seconds. what do we got? >> as olympians, we're always trying to get a good workout. >> curling. >> curling, sweeping. even at home, you can bend your knees, do a lunge while sweeping the house and if you would like to come over, my wife would appreciate this. i can give you a longer lesson on sweeping. >> we got to go. >> colin farrell tomorrow, good-bye, everybody. okay. let's train like it's race day. what's up ted?

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nbc bay area news starts now. >> right now at 11:00, a new problem for the bay bridge and we're not talking about faulty bolts. how this weekend's storm created a whole new concern on the eastern span. meantime, heavy rain forced some businesses to board up, others to haul out the sandbags. today the storm is clearing out. but it has left a trail of aftermath behind it. we have team coverage. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. >> let's begin our coverage on the wet weather with meteorologist christina loren. it is causing a lot of issues.